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HEALTH CARE (APPROPRIATION) ACT 1998No. 74, 1998 - SECT 6

Grants to States conditional on adherence to specified principles (1) A grant of financial assistance under section 4 is not payable to a State unless the Minister is satisfied that the State is adhering to the principles set out in subsection (2).

(2) The principles are as follows:

Principle 1

Eligible persons are to be given the choice to receive, free of charge as public patients, health and emergency services of a kind or kinds that are currently, or were historically, provided by hospitals.

Principle 2

Access to such services by public patients free of charge is to be on the basis of clinical need and within a clinically appropriate period.

Principle 3

Arrangements are to be in place to ensure equitable access to such services for all eligible persons, regardless of their geographic location.

[ Minister's second reading speech made in--

House of Representatives on 28 May 1998

Senate on 22 June 1998 ]

(87/98)


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