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HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1981

Table of Provisions

  • 1 Short title.  
  • 2 Commencement  
  • 3 Principal Act  
  • 4 Interpretation  
  • 5 Hospital insured persons and medically insured persons  
  • 6  
  • 7 Persons in Australia may apply for application of Act to them  
  • 8  
  • 9 Pathology services  
  • 10 Forms of undertaking for approved pathology practitioners  
  • 11 Commonwealth benefit not payable in respect of certain medical expenses  
  • 12  
  • 13 Claims for Commonwealth medical benefit  
  • 14 Agreements with registered organizations for registration of certain persons  
  • 15 Medical services outside Australia  
  • 16 Undertakings with respect to pensioners  
  • 17 Common form of undertaking  
  • 18 Agreements with States and Northern Territory for provision of hospital services  
  • 19 Payments in respect of recognized hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory  
  • 20 Daily bed payments to private hospitals  
  • 21 Supplementary daily bed payments to private hospitals  
  • 22 Interpretation  
  • 23 Grants in respect of certain payments made by approved organizations  
  • 24 Interpretation  
  • 25 Appointment to vacant office  
  • 26  
  • 27 Conduct of hearing  
  • 28 Summons to give evidence, &c.  
  • 29  
  • 30 Refusal to be sworn or to answer questions  
  • 31 Recommendation by Committee  
  • 32 Determination by Minister  
  • 33 Establishment of Optometrical Services Committees of Inquiry  
  • 34 Recommendation by Committee  
  • 35 Payments by the Commonwealth  
  • 36 Health Insurance Fund  
  • 37 False statements, &c.  
  • 38  
  • 39 Search of premises, &c.  
  • 40 Prosecutions  
  • 41  
  • 42 Regulations  
  • 43 Schedule 2  
  • 44 New forms of undertaking for approved pathology practitioners  
  • 45 Undertakings to continue in force  
  • 46 Continuation of undertaking not to prevent giving of further undertaking  
  • 47 Undertakings continued in force to cease to be in force  
  • 48 Principal Act  
  • 49 Interpretation  
  • 50 Waiting period  
  • 51 Interpretation  
  • 52 Approved patient  
  • 53 Approved attendants and approved escorts  
  • 54 Circumstances in which payment not to be made  
  • 55 Approval of nursing home  
  • 56 Determination that patient be treated as uninsured nursing home patient  
  • 57 Furnishing of audited accounts of proprietors of certain approved nursing homes  
  • 58 Effect of suspension on approval of nursing home  
  • 59 Interpretation  
  • 60 Basic benefit payable in respect of nursing home care  
  • 61 Extensive care benefit payable in respect of nursing home care  
  • 62 Payment of Commonwealth benefit and nursing home fund benefit in respect of same patient for same period  
  • 63 Commonwealth benefit not payable where compensation, &c., is payable to patient  
  • 64  
  • 65 Interpretation  
  • 66 Application by organizations for registration as hospital benefits organizations  
  • 67 Reinsurance Account in hospital benefits fund  
  • 68  
  • 69 Guidelines for optional tables  
  • 70 Exemptions of professional services and associated hospital treatment from basic table  
  • 71  
  • 72 Public officer of registered organization  
  • 73 Changes of rules, &c., by registered organizations  
  • 74 Provisions applicable to persons ceasing to be pensioners or disadvantaged persons  
  • 75 Schedule  
  • 76 Principal Act  
  • 77 Interpretation  
  • 78 Approval of nursing home  
  • 79 Fees  
  • 80 Insured nursing home patients requiring extensive care  
  • 81 Principal Act  
  • 82 Interpretation  
  • 83  
  • 84 Furnishing of information with respect to composition of goods  
  • 85 Labelling and packaging requirements in British Pharmacopoeia  
  • 86 Determination of standards for specific goods  
  • 87 Modifications of monographs by Minister  
  • 88  
  • 89  
  • 90 Offences-General  
  • 91  
  • 92 Judicial notice  
  • 93  
  • 94  
  • 95  
  • 96 Regulations  
  • 97 Additional amendments  

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