Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 98AA

             (1)  Whenever an approved hospital authority requests that its approval under section 94 in respect of all or any of the hospitals in respect of which it is approved be cancelled, the Minister shall cancel that approval.

             (2)  Where an approved hospital authority gives the Minister notice in writing that the authority has ceased to conduct a hospital in respect of which it is approved, the Minister may (at his or her discretion) cancel the approval.

             (3)  Where the Minister is satisfied that an approved hospital authority is not conducting a hospital in respect of which it is approved, the Minister may (at his or her discretion), by notice in writing to the authority, cancel the approval of the authority under section 94.

98AB  Notification by Department of alterations to pharmaceutical benefits scheme

                   The Secretary must cause to be made publicly available on the Department's website information on the outcomes of the changes to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme resulting from the introduction of the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Act 2007 .