Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1976 No. 99, 1976 - SECT 16

16. Section 73C of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the words ''hospital benefit fund''
(wherever occurring) and substituting the words ''hospital benefits fund'';

(b) by omitting from sub-section (2) the words ''hospital benefit fund''
and substituting the words ''hospital benefits fund'';

(c) by inserting in sub-section (2), after the word ''organization'', the
words ''or a dependant of such a contributor'';

   (d)  by inserting in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of sub- section
        (3),
after the word ''contributor'', the words ''or a dependant of a contributor'';
and

   (e)  by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-section (3) and substituting
        the following paragraphs:-

''(b) a rule that, where a Commonwealth benefit under section 57B is payable
in respect of a contributor or a dependant of a contributor for a day on which
the contributor or the dependant receives nursing home care in a nursing home,
no benefit referred to in sub- section (1) is payable in respect of that
contributor or that dependant for that day; and

''(c) a rule that benefit referred to in sub-section (1) is not payable in
respect of a contributor or a dependant of a contributor for a day in respect
of which Commonwealth benefit under section 56 is not payable in respect of
that contributor or that dependant.''.