EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 NO. 250
ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH
NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Section 140 of the National Health Act 1953 (‘the Act’) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the Act.
The regulation effects a formal amendment of the National Health Regulations (‘the Regulations’) which does not involve any considerations of a policy nature. The amendment repeals regulation 3A of the Regulations, which as a result of amendments of the Act, no longer accorded with the original authority for its making under section 140 of the Act.
Regulation 3A prescribed amounts for the purposes of the definition of “the standard table” formerly in sub-section 4(1) of the Act. This
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definition was, however, repealed by the National Health Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978.
The statutory rule commenced to operate on the date of its notification in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.