EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

CANBERRA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (CHARGES) REGULATIONS

AMENDING REGULATIONS.

No. 4 of 1960

	There are several clinics conducted at the Canberra Community Hospital (viz. the Obstetric Instruction Clinic, the Posture Clinic and the Breathing Clinic) in which out-patients are taken in classes and taught exercises by a physiotherapist.

	It has been the practice to make charges for visits to these clinics on the basis that the treatment given was “physiotherapy”.  These amendments to the Regulations will fix the fee for attendance at the classes at the rate of 5/- for the first attendance and 2/6d. for each subsequent attendance, these rates being half those applicable to visits for individual physiotherapy treatment.

	The amendment to regulation 3 (set out in regulation 1 of the amending Regulations) is purely a drafting matter designed to clarify the intention of regulation 3.