NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS AMENDMENT 1979 NO. 59 

NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS AMENDMENT 1979 NO. 59 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Accommodation allowance in respect of approved patients   
2.  Accommodation allowance in respect of approved attendants and approved escorts  
3.  Accommodation allowance in respect of certain escorts   
4.   


NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS AMENDMENT1979 No. 59
- REG 1     Accommodation allowance in respect of approved patients 



 
        Regulation 7 of the National Health Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (1), paragraphs (a) and (b) of
sub-regulation (2), paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-regulation (3)
and paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) "is satisfied" and
substituting "has certified in writing under his hand".







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- REG 2     Accommodation allowance in respect of approved attendants and approved escorts





        Regulation 8 of the National Health Regulations is amended-



        (a)  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) "is
satisfied" and substituting "has certified in writing under his hand"; and


        (b)  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) "-the
amount equal to the sum of travel allowance and accommodation allowance (if
any) that would, in the opinion of the Permanent Head, have been payable under
Part III of the Act in respect of the person if the person had undertaken those
journeys" and substituting "and the Permanent Head has certified in writing
under his hand that travel allowance or accommodation allowance of an amount
specified in the certificate would have been payable under Part III of the Act
in respect of the person if the person had undertaken those journeys-the
amount, or the total of the amounts, specified in the certificate".








NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS AMENDMENT1979 No. 59
- REG 3     Accommodation allowance in respect of certain escorts 



 
        Regulation 9 of the National Health Regulations is amended-



        (a)  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) "is
satisfied" and substituting "has certified in writing under his hand"; and


        (b)  by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of
sub-regulation (3) "-the amount equal to the sum of travel allowance and
accommodation allowance (if any) that would, in the opinion of the Permanent
Head, have been payable under Part III of the Act in respect of the person if
the person had undertaken those journeys" and substituting "and the Permanent
Head has certified in writing under his hand that travel allowance or
accommodation allowance of an amount specified in the certificate would have
been payable under Part III of the Act in respect of the person if the person
had undertaken those journeys-the amount, or the total of the amounts,
specified in the certificate".





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- REG 4    





        After Regulation 11 of the National Health Regulations the following
regulation is inserted:



 Application for review of decisions under Part II



 
    "12.    (1)    An application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for
the review of any decision of the Permanent Head made for the purposes of a
provision of this Part.

        "(2)    In sub-regulation (1), `decision' has the same meaning as in the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975.".











1.    Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 April 1979.
2.    Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended by Statutory Rules 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; and 1978 Nos. 66, 178, 208 and
266.







NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS AMENDMENT 1979 NO. 59
- NOTES
Compilation Information
[GRAPHIC]
Statutory Rules 
1979 No. 59
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH
ACT19531
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the National Health Act 1953.
    Dated this fifth day of April 1979.
    ZELMAN COWEN
    Governor-General
    By His Excellency's Command,
RALPH J. HUNT
Minister of State for Health
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AMENDMENTS OF THE NATIONAL
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