Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 339 NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2

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.".