Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person mentioned in subsection (2) must not, in circumstances set out in the regulations:
(a) charge a fee for the provision of a public hospital service; or
(b) 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.
Note: For public hospital service see subsection 3(1).
(2) The persons are as follows:
(a) a medical practitioner;
(b) a participating midwife;
(c) a participating nurse practitioner;
(d) a person acting on behalf of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).