Statutory Rules
1976 No. 227
REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Health Act 1953.
Dated this fourteenth day of October, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
RALPH J. HUNT
Minister of State for Health.
Amendment of the National Health Regulations†
After regulation 3 of the National Health Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Prescribed benefit.
“ 3a. For the purposes of the definition of ‘ “ the standard medical benefits table ” or “ the standard table ” ’ in sub-section 4 (1) of the Act, an amount, in respect of a professional service any part of which is rendered on the premises of an organization that is, when the service is rendered, an approved organization for the purposes of Part IV of the Health Insurance Act 1973, equal to the medical benefit that would, but for sub-section 17 (1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, be payable under Part II of the Health Insurance Act 1973 in respect of such a service rendered to an eligible person is a benefit in relation to registered medical benefits organizations.”.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 15 October 1976
† Statutory Rules 1954, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1975, No. 71; 1958, No. 63; 1962, Nos. 55, 70 and 113; 1965, Nos. 17, 94 and 185; 1966, No. 99; 1967, No. 86; 1969, Nos. 91 and 220; 1970, Nos. 70 and 166; 1971, Nos. 28, 76, 103 and 138; 1972, No. 79; 1973, Nos. 17, 75, 111, 221, 225 and 267; 1974, Nos. 52, 104, 105, 113 and 263; and 1975, Nos. 14, 49, 66, 100, 124, 165 and 207; 1976, Nos. 113 and 217.