Australian Capital Territory
Medical Services (Fees) Act 1984
A1984-7
Republication No 1 (RI)
Effective:  23 March 1984  – 16 July 2002
Republication date of printed version: 31 July 1991
Reissued electronically: 12 October 2010
Act not amended

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

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The republished law
This is a republication of the Medical Services (Fees) Act 1984 effective 23 March 1984 to 16 July 2002.  
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AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

medical services (fees) act 1984
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 31 July 1991
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1.	Short title
	2.	Interpretation
	3.	Fees for certain medical services

An Act to regulate fees that may be charged in respect of certain medical services
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Medical Services (Fees) Act 1984.1
Interpretation
2.  In this Act—
“hospital” means—
	(a)	the premises known as the Royal Canberra Hospital;
	(b)	the premises known as the Woden Valley Hospital, other than ward 10A; and
	(c)	the premises known as Calvary Hospital;
“medical practitioner” means a person registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1930;
“prescribed fee”, in relation to a prescribed medical service, means the fee specified in respect of that service in relation to the State of New South Wales in an item in the table;
“prescribed medical service” means a medical service specified in an item in the table, being an item the number of which is referred to in Schedule 5 to the Health Insurance Regulations made under the Health Insurance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth;
“private patient” has the same meaning as in the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations;
“table” means the table of medical services set out in the Schedule to the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 31) Regulations made under the Health Insurance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth.
Fees for certain medical services
3.  (1)  Where a medical practitioner renders a prescribed medical service to a person who is a private patient in a hospital, the medical practitioner is not entitled to receive for that service any amount that exceeds the amount of the prescribed fee in relation to that service.
(2)  Where a medical practitioner receives for a prescribed medical service rendered by him to a person who is a private patient in a hospital an amount that exceeds the amount of the prescribed fee in relation to that service, the amount by which the amount so received exceeds that prescribed fee is a debt due to that person.

NOTE
1.	The Medical Services (Fees) Act 1984, Act No 7, 1984; notified in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 March 1984; commenced on 23 March 1984.
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989  (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.

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