Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Health Acts Amendment Act 1981 No. 118 of 1981 - SECT 29

29. (1) Sections 100 and 101 of the Principal Act are repealed and the
following sections are substituted: Allowances for witnesses at hearing

''100. A person summoned (otherwise than under section 96) to appear as a
witness at a hearing before the Committee is entitled to be paid allowances,
fixed by or in accordance with the regulations, for expenses in respect of his
attendance. Failure to attend

''101. (1) A person served with a summons to appear at a hearing shall not,
without reasonable excuse-

   (a)  fail to attend as required by the summons; or

   (b)  fail to appear and report himself from day to day unless excused, or
        released from further attendance, by a member.

''(2) A practitioner served with a summons to attend a hearing shall not,
without reasonable excuse-

   (a)  fail to attend as required by the summons; or

   (b)  fail to attend and report himself from day to day unless excused, or
        released from further attendance, by a member.

Penalty: $1,000.''.

(2) Regulations in force at the commencement of this section for the purposes
of section 100 of the Principal Act continue in force as if made for the
purposes of section 100 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.