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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 1

STATUTORY RULES 1995 No. 1

Issued by Authority of the Minister for Human Services and Health

National Health Act 1953

National Health Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed.

A number of government nursing homes have previously been prescribed by regulation as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act. This amended regulation is to prescribe one additional New South Wales nursing home and two nursing homes in Victoria as adjusted fee government nursing homes

Currently, proprietors of government nursing homes receive a fixed rate of benefit for each nursing home resident. The rate of benefit paid in respect of such residents has been frozen since 1985. In the 1992 Federal Budget, the Government announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought Into the care aggregated module (CAM) and the modified standard aggregate module (SAM) funding system which applies only to adjusted fee government nursing homes. The CAM:modified SAM funding system will result in higher levels of benefit being paid to the proprietors of nursing homes that become adjusted fee government nursing homes. In order for existing government nursing homes to become adjusted fee government nursing homes and thereby be brought into the CAM:modified SAM funding system, they must be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.

The purpose of the amendment is to prescribe three additional adjusted fee government nursing homes, one in New South Wales and two in Victoria, with effect from 1 February 1995.

The nursing homes prescribed are set out in the Attachment.

The regulations commenced on 1 February 1995.

ATTACHMENT

Name and Address of Nursing Home	Approval No
Dudley Unit Nursing Home Ocean Street DUDLEY NSW 2290	1461S
Victoria
Hesse Rural Health Service 8 Gosney Street, WINCHELSEA, VICTORIA 3241	4474S
Apollo Bay Nursing Home McLachlan Street APOLLO BAY VICTORIA 3233	4475S