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Medical Services (Fees) Ordinance 1984
No. 7 of 1984
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 14 March 1984.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
NEAL BLEWETT
Minister of State for Health

An Ordinance to regulate fees that may be charged in respect of certain medical services
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Services (Fees) Ordinance 1984.1
Interpretation
2.  In this Ordinance—
“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 Ordinance 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;
“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.
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.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 March 1984.