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Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011
sec.53PFunctions of administrator
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### sec.53P Functions of administrator
The administrator is—
to calculate and advise the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of the amounts required to be paid by the Commonwealth into each State pool account of the National Health Funding Pool under the National Health Reform Agreement (including advice on any reconciliation of those amounts based on subsequent actual service delivery); and
to monitor State payments into each State pool account for the purposes of subdivision 3 ; and
to make payments from each State pool account in accordance with the directions of the State concerned; and
to report publicly on the payments made into and from each State pool account and other matters on which the administrator is required to report under this division; and
to exercise or perform any other functions conferred on the administrator under this division.
The National Health Reform Act 2011 (Cwlth) provides that the functions of the administrator include monitoring Commonwealth payments into each State pool account for the purposes of financial management and reporting.
The administrator and the body and staff assisting the administrator are not subject to the control or direction of any Minister of the Commonwealth in relation to the exercise or performance of the administrator’s functions under this division.
However, the administrator is required to comply with any directions given by COAG in relation to the manner in which the administrator exercises or performs his or her functions under this division (including in relation to the preparation or provision of annual or monthly reports, financial statements or information under subdivision 3 ).
Directions given by COAG under subsection (3) —
are to be given in accordance with a written resolution of COAG passed in accordance with the procedures determined by COAG; and
are to be notified in writing to the administrator; and
are to be made publicly available by the administrator.
To avoid doubt, this division is not intended—
to give the Commonwealth ownership or control of money in a State pool account; or
to affect the obligation of the administrator under the law of a State to make payments from the State pool account of the State in accordance with the directions of the State.
To avoid doubt, the administrator may have regard to information obtained in the exercise or performance of functions under the law of another jurisdiction in the exercise or performance of the administrator’s functions under subdivision 3 .
s 53P ins 2012 No. 9 s 26
(sec.53P-ssec.1) The administrator is— to calculate and advise the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of the amounts required to be paid by the Commonwealth into each State pool account of the National Health Funding Pool under the National Health Reform Agreement (including advice on any reconciliation of those amounts based on subsequent actual service delivery); and to monitor State payments into each State pool account for the purposes of subdivision 3 ; and to make payments from each State pool account in accordance with the directions of the State concerned; and to report publicly on the payments made into and from each State pool account and other matters on which the administrator is required to report under this division; and to exercise or perform any other functions conferred on the administrator under this division. The National Health Reform Act 2011 (Cwlth) provides that the functions of the administrator include monitoring Commonwealth payments into each State pool account for the purposes of financial management and reporting.
(sec.53P-ssec.2) The administrator and the body and staff assisting the administrator are not subject to the control or direction of any Minister of the Commonwealth in relation to the exercise or performance of the administrator’s functions under this division.
(sec.53P-ssec.3) However, the administrator is required to comply with any directions given by COAG in relation to the manner in which the administrator exercises or performs his or her functions under this division (including in relation to the preparation or provision of annual or monthly reports, financial statements or information under subdivision 3 ).
(sec.53P-ssec.4) Directions given by COAG under subsection (3) — are to be given in accordance with a written resolution of COAG passed in accordance with the procedures determined by COAG; and are to be notified in writing to the administrator; and are to be made publicly available by the administrator.
(sec.53P-ssec.5) To avoid doubt, this division is not intended— to give the Commonwealth ownership or control of money in a State pool account; or to affect the obligation of the administrator under the law of a State to make payments from the State pool account of the State in accordance with the directions of the State.
(sec.53P-ssec.6) To avoid doubt, the administrator may have regard to information obtained in the exercise or performance of functions under the law of another jurisdiction in the exercise or performance of the administrator’s functions under subdivision 3 .
- (a) to calculate and advise the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of the amounts required to be paid by the Commonwealth into each State pool account of the National Health Funding Pool under the National Health Reform Agreement (including advice on any reconciliation of those amounts based on subsequent actual service delivery); and
- (b) to monitor State payments into each State pool account for the purposes of subdivision 3 ; and
- (c) to make payments from each State pool account in accordance with the directions of the State concerned; and
- (d) to report publicly on the payments made into and from each State pool account and other matters on which the administrator is required to report under this division; and
- (e) to exercise or perform any other functions conferred on the administrator under this division.
- (a) are to be given in accordance with a written resolution of COAG passed in accordance with the procedures determined by COAG; and
- (b) are to be notified in writing to the administrator; and
- (c) are to be made publicly available by the administrator.
- (a) to give the Commonwealth ownership or control of money in a State pool account; or
- (b) to affect the obligation of the administrator under the law of a State to make payments from the State pool account of the State in accordance with the directions of the State.