1.2Application of Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006

1.2 Application of Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006

1.2.1 The Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 (the RPPPs), determined by the Commission under subsection 17(2) of the Act, apply in all States in which a Repatriation General Hospital has been integrated into the State health system and in those States and Territories in which the Commission has declared, under section 90B of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, that the VEA Repatriation Private Patient Principles, made under section 90A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, apply.

1.2.2 In those States or Territories where the RPPPs apply, a provision of the Treatment Principles does not apply if it is inconsistent with the RPPPs.

1.2.3 Nothing in these Treatment Principles is to be taken to require prior approval for admission at a public hospital in any State or Territory in which the RPPPs apply.