Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Health Acts Amendment Act 1981 No. 118 of 1981 - SECT 64

64. Section 60A of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted:

Direction that Commonwealth benefit not to be subject to reduction

''60A. Where the Permanent Head considers that the fees in respect of nursing
home care for qualified nursing home patients in a nursing home are less than
is appropriate having regard to the standard of nursing home care provided in
that nursing home and to any other matter that he considers relevant,
the Permanent Head may, by instrument in writing, direct that sub-section (2)
of section 47 does not apply in relation to any of the qualified nursing home
patients in that nursing home.''.