AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

CANBERRA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (CHARGES) REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 9 of 1966

	In the Schedules to the Canberra Community Hospital (Charges) Regulations, there are several references to amounts expressed in pounds shillings and pence which do not convert exactly into decimal currency equivalents.  The exact conversion of such odd amounts is not provided for in special Commonwealth legislation dealing with decimal currency and it has therefore become necessary to amend legislation in which such references occur, by substituting decimal currency amounts.  These amendments to the Regulations are primarily designed to provide accordingly.

2.	As it is necessary to amend the Schedules, the opportunity has been taken to remake them entirely, so that decimal currency amounts are also substituted for the various amounts which convert exactly.