NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 88, 1978 - SECT 7 Conditions of registration

NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 88, 1978 - SECT 7

7. (1) Section 73BA of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by adding at the end of paragraphs (b) and (c) ''operated by the
        organization or, if the organization operates 2 or more such tables,
        in accordance with any of those tables'';

   (b)  by omitting from paragraphs (ca), (g), (h) and (i) ''the standard''
        (wherever occurring) and substituting ''a standard''; and

   (c)  by inserting after paragraph (i) the following paragraph:

''(ia) a condition that, where the organization conducts a medical benefits
fund, the organization shall not agree to pay a benefit from the fund to a
person who has taken an assignment of the benefit from the person who is
entitled under the rules of the organization to payment of the benefit unless-

        (i)    that last-mentioned person is an eligible pensioner or a
               dependant of an eligible pensioner; and

        (ii)   the service in respect of which the benefit is payable was
               rendered in respect of the pensioner or a dependant of the
               pensioner;''.

(2) The condition set out in the paragraph to be inserted in the Principal Act
by paragraph (1) (c) applies in relation to the registration of an
organization whether that registration was effected before, or is effected
after, the commencement of this sub-section.