Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (GENERAL PURPOSES) ACT 1994 No. 122, 1994 - SECT 5

5.(1) In this Act, a reference to a hospital grant for a State is a reference
to an amount worked out using the formula:
TAP - (SDA - RCC) where:

"TAP" (total amount payable) means the amount determined by the Health
Minister before 10 June in the grant year to be the estimate of the total
amount payable to the State, during the grant year, under the hospital funding
arrangements for that year;

"SDA" (sum of deductible amounts) means the amount determined by the Minister
before 10 June in the grant year to be the estimate of such part of TAP as is
the sum of the amounts payable to the State, during the grant year, under the
hospital funding arrangements for that year that relate to:

   (a)  bonus grants payments made in accordance with Schedule D of the
        1993-1998 Medicare Agreements; and

   (b)  the Incentives Package for:

        (i)    Area Health Management; and

        (ii)   Hospital Access Program; and

        (iii)  Devolution of Clinical Budgets; and

        (iv)   Strategic Capital Planning of hospital infrastructure; and

   (c)  mental health reforms; and

   (d)  nominated health services, including:

        (i)    the treatment of AIDS patients; and

        (ii)   day surgery; and

        (iii)  post-acute and palliative care;

"RCC" (reduction in certain circumstances) means the amount determined by that
Minister before that date to be the estimate of any reduction in the amount
otherwise payable to the State, during the grant year, under the
hospital funding arrangements for that year, because of the existence of
circumstances that under those arrangements require the reduction to be made.

(2) In this section:

"hospital funding arrangements" means the arrangements set out in the
agreements entered into with the States under section 24 of the Health
Insurance Act 1973.