Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1993 No. 280 NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3

3.1 After regulation 50, add: Prescribed authority-Department of Veterans'
Affairs

"51. For the purposes of subparagraph 135A (3) (b) (i) of the Act, the
Department of Veterans' Affairs is a prescribed authority. Provision of
information to Department of Veterans' Affairs

"52. (1) For the purposes of subparagraph 135A (3) (b) (ii) of the Act,
information of the kinds specified in subregulation (2) may be provided to the
Department of Veterans' Affairs for the purpose of, and to the extent
necessary for, ascertaining whether the Repatriation Commission is responsible
for all or some of the cost of nursing home care of a patient if:

   (a)  the patient is a Repatriation nursing home patient; or

   (b)  the patient is an approved nursing home patient and either:

        (i)    the patient has been funded for nursing home care by the
               Department of Veterans' Affairs; or

        (ii)   it has come to the notice of the Secretary that the patient may
               have an entitlement to be funded for nursing home care by the
               Department of Veterans' Affairs.

"(2) The kinds of information mentioned in subregulation (1) are as follows:

   (a)  the medical condition of the patient;

   (b)  the reason for the patient's admission to a nursing home;

   (c)  information specified in Schedule 6.".