Lower fees for charitable healthcare service providers
7.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to an applicant or a licensee who is a charitable healthcare service provider —
(a)
at the time the application for the grant or renewal of a licence is made;
(b)
at the time an application for approval of any permanent premises, conveyance or other service delivery mode by which a licensable healthcare service is or is intended to be provided is made; or
(c)
at the time an application for approval to provide any specified service for a licensable healthcare service is made,
as the case may be.
(2) For the purposes of section 10(2)(b) of the Act and subject to paragraph (3), the application fee payable to the Director-General for the grant or renewal of a licence is $12 for each licence.
(3) The application fee specified in paragraph (2) applies regardless of the number of licensable healthcare services in respect of which the applicant or licensee applies for the grant or renewal of licences, provided that all the licensable healthcare services concerned are provided at the same permanent premises or conveyance.
(4) For the purposes of section 11A(1)(b) of the Act, the application fee payable to the Director-General for approval of every permanent premises, conveyance or other service delivery mode by which a licensable healthcare service is or is intended to be provided is $12 for each application.
(5) The application fee mentioned in paragraph (4) does not apply where the application for approval of the permanent premises, conveyance or other service delivery mode is made at the same time as an application for the grant or renewal of a licence.
(6) For the purposes of section 11C(1)(b) of the Act, the application fee payable to the Director-General for approval to provide a specified service for a licensable healthcare service is $12 for each application.
(7) The application fee mentioned in paragraph (6) does not apply where the application for approval to provide a specified service (X) for a licensable healthcare service (called in this paragraph the relevant LHS) is made at the same time as —
(a)
an application for the grant or renewal of a licence to provide the relevant LHS; or
(b)
an application for approval of any permanent premises, conveyance or other service delivery mode by which the relevant LHS is or is intended to be provided.
(8) For the purposes of section 15(3)(c) of the Act, the application fee payable to the Director-General in respect of an amendment of a licence under section 15(1)(c) of the Act to amend any of the following particulars or information is $12 for each application:
(a)
the licensee’s name;
(b)
the licensee’s business name within the meaning given by regulation 48(2) of the Healthcare Services (General) Regulations 2021;
(c)
the address of any approved permanent premises or the registration number of any approved conveyance.
(9) The fees specified in the second column of the Second Schedule are payable to the Director-General in respect of the matters specified in the first column of that Schedule.