Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Amendment Act 66 of 1981

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66 of 1981

Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Amendment Act, 1981 (No. 66 of 1981)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
__ Words underlined with solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 28 August 1981.) 

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 53A of Act 56 of 1974, as inserted by section 10 of Act 52 of 1978 and amended by section 8 of Act 43 of 1980.

1. Section 53A of the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act, 1974, is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5):

"(5A) If any Association or body and the Representative Association of Medical Schemes referred to in subsection (2) agree that any particular item of a tariff of fees determined under subsection (1) or amended under subsection (5) should be amended in order to eliminate any anomaly with regard to the application of such item, and the said Association or body and Representative Association-

(a) agree on such amendment which has to be effected, that amendment shall for the purposes of subsection (4) be deemed to be an amendment under subsection  (5) which has been approved by the Minister;

(b) fail to agree on such amendment which has to be effected, the tariffs committee established in terms of section 11 (2A) in respect of the profession concerned shall determine thaf amendment, which shall thereupon for the purposes of subsection (4) of this section be deemed to be an amendment by the council under subsection (5) of this section of the said tariff of fees.".

Short title.

2. This Act shall be called the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Amendment Act, 1981.

Commencement

18 September 1981

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