NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 339 

NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 339 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.    Amendment  
2.    New Part 8  


1991 No. 339 NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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1.   Amendment


  1.1   The National Health Regulations are amended as set out in these
Regulations.
(NOTE:  These Regulations commence on gazettal:  see Acts Interpretation Act
1901, s. 48)


1991 No. 339 NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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2.   New Part 8


  After Part 8, insert:
        "PART 8A-CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE SUPPLY OF HEARING AIDS
Interpretation
 "43A. In this Part:
 "dependent child" means a child under the age of 21 years who is in the
custody, care and control of a NAL client or of the spouse of a NAL client;
 "hearing aid services"  means any of the following services:
  (a) the supply by NAL of new batteries for hearing aids;
  (b) the repair and maintenance by NAL of hearing aids;
  (c) the replacement by NAL of lost, damaged or obsolete hearing aids;
 "hearing aid charge" means a charge mentioned in regulation 43C;
 "NAL" means the National Acoustic Laboratories established under the Acoustic
Laboratories Act 1948;
 "NAL client"  means a person eligible to receive hearing aid services.
NAL clients to pay for hearing aid services
 "43B. (1)  Subject to this regulation, an NAL client who requires the
provision of hearing aid services must pay a hearing aid charge.
 "(2) Payment by an NAL client of a hearing aid charge entitles that client,
and any dependent child of that NAL client, to be provided with any hearing
aid services for the period of 1 year commencing on the day of payment.
Amount of charge
 "43C. (1)  Subject to subsection (2), the hearing aid charge is $25.00.
 "(2) If NAL clients who are spouses of one another pay the hearing aid charge
at the same time, the hearing aid charge payable by each of them is $20.00."
Refunds
 "43D. If an NAL client who has paid a hearing aid charge dies within the year
commencing on the date of payment, a refund is payable calculated in
accordance with the formula:
                        AN
                        12
where:
A is the amount paid, and
N is the number of whole calendar months in that year unexpired at the date of
the NAL client's death.".


- NOTES


1991 No. 339*1* NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)



*1*Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 November 1991.
*2*Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended by 1957 No. 71; 1958 No. 63; 1962
Nos. 55, 70 and 113; 1965 Nos. 17, 94 and 185; 1966 No. 99; 1967 No. 86; 1969
Nos. 91 and 220; 1970 Nos. 70 and 166; 1971 Nos. 28, 76, 103 and 138; 1972 No.
79; 1973 Nos. 17, 75, 111, 221, 225 and 267; 1974 Nos. 52, 104, 105, 113 and
263; 1975 Nos. 14, 49, 66, 100, 124, 165 and 207; 1976 Nos. 113, 217 and 227;
1977 Nos. 11, 34, 51 and 112; 1978 Nos. 66, 178, 208 and 266; 1979 Nos. 59,
107, 208 and 231; 1980 Nos. 84, 292 and 309; 1981 Nos. 43, 97, 115, 232 and
318; 1982 Nos. 38, 82, 84, 250 and 284; 1983 Nos. 45, 247 and 267; 1984 Nos.
66, 161, 200, 308, 322 and 427; 1985 Nos. 86, 136, 186, 187, 206 and 288; 1986
Nos. 47, 53, 208, 330, 353 and 360; 1987 Nos. 50, 76, 100 and 310; 1989 Nos.
291, 292 and 334; 1990 Nos. 24, 86, 114, 292, 335 and 396; 1991 Nos. 40, 41,
232, 262, 263 and 310.