Charging of fees for provision of public hospital services to public patients
128C Charging of fees for provision of public hospital services to public patients
A person mentioned in subsection (2) must not, in circumstances set out in the regulations:
charge a fee for the provision of a public hospital service; or
receive any payment or other consideration from anyone in respect of the provision of a public hospital service;
if the person knows that the person to whom the service is, or is to be, provided is, or intends to be, a public patient in the hospital.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
For public hospital service see subsection 3(1).
The persons are as follows:
a medical practitioner;
a participating midwife;
a participating nurse practitioner;
a person acting on behalf of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).
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