Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1981

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Short title.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  
   4.      Interpretation  
   5.      Hospital insured persons and medically insured persons  
   6.       
   7.      Persons in Australia may apply for application of Act to them  
   8.       
   9.      Pathology services  
   10.     Forms of undertaking for approved pathology practitioners  
   11.     Commonwealth benefit not payable in respect of certain medical expenses  
   12.      
   13.     Claims for Commonwealth medical benefit  
   14.     Agreements with registered organizations for registration of certain persons  
   15.     Medical services outside Australia  
   16.     Undertakings with respect to pensioners  
   17.     Common form of undertaking  
   18.     Agreements with States and Northern Territory for provision of hospital services  
   19.     Payments in respect of recognized hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory  
   20.     Daily bed payments to private hospitals  
   21.     Supplementary daily bed payments to private hospitals  
   22.     Interpretation  
   23.     Grants in respect of certain payments made by approved organizations  
   24.     Interpretation  
   25.     Appointment to vacant office  
   26.      
   27.     Conduct of hearing  
   28.     Summons to give evidence, &c.  
   29.      
   30.     Refusal to be sworn or to answer questions  
   31.     Recommendation by Committee  
   32.     Determination by Minister  
   33.     Establishment of Optometrical Services Committees of Inquiry  
   34.     Recommendation by Committee  
   35.     Payments by the Commonwealth  
   36.     Health Insurance Fund  
   37.     False statements, &c.  
   38.      
   39.     Search of premises, &c.  
   40.     Prosecutions  
   41.      
   42.     Regulations  
   43.     Schedule 2  
   44.     New forms of undertaking for approved pathology practitioners  
   45.     Undertakings to continue in force  
   46.     Continuation of undertaking not to prevent giving of further undertaking  
   47.     Undertakings continued in force to cease to be in force  
   48.     Principal Act  
   49.     Interpretation  
   50.     Waiting period  
   51.     Interpretation  
   52.     Approved patient  
   53.     Approved attendants and approved escorts  
   54.     Circumstances in which payment not to be made  
   55.     Approval of nursing home  
   56.     Determination that patient be treated as uninsured nursing home patient  
   57.     Furnishing of audited accounts of proprietors of certain approved nursing homes  
   58.     Effect of suspension on approval of nursing home  
   59.     Interpretation  
   60.     Basic benefit payable in respect of nursing home care  
   61.     Extensive care benefit payable in respect of nursing home care  
   62.     Payment of Commonwealth benefit and nursing home fund benefit in respect of same patient for same period  
   63.     Commonwealth benefit not payable where compensation, &c., is payable to patient  
   64.      
   65.     Interpretation  
   66.     Application by organizations for registration as hospital benefits organizations  
   67.     Reinsurance Account in hospital benefits fund  
   68.      
   69.     Guidelines for optional tables  
   70.     Exemptions of professional services and associated hospital treatment from basic table  
   71.      
   72.     Public officer of registered organization  
   73.     Changes of rules, &c., by registered organizations  
   74.     Provisions applicable to persons ceasing to be pensioners or disadvantaged persons  
   75.     Schedule  
   76.     Principal Act  
   77.     Interpretation  
   78.     Approval of nursing home  
   79.     Fees  
   80.     Insured nursing home patients requiring extensive care  
   81.     Principal Act  
   82.     Interpretation  
   83.      
   84.     Furnishing of information with respect to composition of goods  
   85.     Labelling and packaging requirements in British Pharmacopoeia  
   86.     Determination of standards for specific goods  
   87.     Modifications of monographs by Minister  
   88.      
   89.      
   90.     Offences-General  
   91.      
   92.     Judicial notice  
   93.      
   94.      
   95.      
   96.     Regulations  
   97.     Additional amendments  
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