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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 40

STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 40

NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

(new paragraph 4(fa))

NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

(new paragraph 4(ga))

The provisions of the above two Regulations are related. For the convenience of users this Explanatory Statement covers both Regulations.

Section 140 of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make Regulations for the purposes of the Act.

The term 'day hospital facility' is presently defined in subsection 4(1) of the Act as follows:

"(a)       premises registered as a hospital under a law of a State or Territory relating to the registration of hospitals; or

(b)       premises, or premises included in a class of premises, prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph."

Regulation 4 of the National Health Regulations has been amended to prescribe ten premises as 'day hospital facilities' for the purposes of the above definition.

Both National Health Regulations (Amendment)s amended regulation 4. The first to prescribe, for the purposes of the above definition, Lidia Perin Day Hospital, 1-5 Grattan Court, Wanniassa, ACT, and the second to prescribe Canberra ophthalmic Day Surgery Centre, 13 Theodore Street, Curtin, ACT, as 'day hospital facilities'. The patients of Lidia Perin Day Hospital and, Canberra Ophthalmic Day Surgery Centre are now eligible to receive basic table benefits as are patients of all other such day hospital facilities.