Northern Territory Numbered Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH FUNDING POOL AND ADMINISTRATION (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) ACT 2012. (NO 21 OF 2012) - SECT 13

    (1)     There is payable from the State Pool Account established for the State amounts to fund the following in the State under the National Health Reform Agreement (including through a State Managed Fund):

    (a)     the services provided by local hospital networks;

    (b)     health teaching, training and research provided by local hospital networks or other organisations;

    (c)     any other matter that under that Agreement is to be funded through the National Health Funding Pool.

    (2)     Payments of amounts from the State Pool Account established for the State are to be made by the Administrator strictly in accordance with the directions of the responsible Minister for the State, including on the amount of each payment, the party or account to which it is to be paid and the timing of the payment.

    (3)     The Administrator is required to authorise personally each payment made from the State Pool Account.

    (4)     The Administrator is, at the direction of the responsible Minister for the State, to repay any money paid by the State into the State Pool Account for the State that the responsible Minister is satisfied constitutes an overpayment into that Account.

    (5)     This section does not affect the payment from the State Pool Account of charges imposed by the Reserve Bank of Australia for the operation of that Account.

    (6)     This section does not require the payment for services and matters referred to in subsection (1) to be made only from the State Pool Account.

    (7)     For the purposes of this section, the funding of a local hospital network includes the funding of another party on behalf of the network for corporate or other services provided to the network by that other party.

    (8)     If at any time when a payment from the State Pool Account is required to be made there is no Administrator or the Administrator is not available to make the payment at that time, the payment from that Account may be made by an official of this State who is directed by the responsible Minister for the State to make the payment.