Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 136 of 1992 - SECT 4

4. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from the definition of "out-patient service" in subsection
(1) "an in-patient" and substituting "a patient";
(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of "patient
contribution" in subsection (1) "an in-patient" and substituting "a patient";
(c) by omitting from the definition of "private patient" in subsection (1)

"an in-patient" and substituting "a patient";
(d) by omitting from the definition of "public patient" in subsection (1)

"an in-patient" and substituting "a patient";
(e) by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of "in-patient";

   (f)  by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:

"'patient', in relation to a hospital, does not include:

   (a)  a member of the staff of the hospital who is receiving treatment in
        his or her own quarters; or

   (b)  except as provided by subsection (2), a newly-born child whose mother
        also occupies a bed in the hospital;";

   (g)  by omitting from paragraphs (2)(a) and (b) "an in-patient" and
        substituting "patient".