BILL NO. 159
(as introduced)
2nd Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
51 Elizabeth II, 2002
Health Services and Insurance Act
(amended)
Maureen MacDonald
Halifax Needham
First Reading: November 21, 2002
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Notes
Clause 1 ensures that medically required services are only provided in Nova Scotia by approved facilities at no charge to Nova Scotians.
Clause 2 ensures that for-profit operations will not be approved to provide medically required services in the Province.
An Act to Amend Chapter 197
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Health Services and Insurance Act, and
Chapter 208 of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Hospitals Act, to Ensure that
Nova Scotians Are Not Required to Pay
for Medically Required Services
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Chapter 197 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Health Services and Insurance Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 3 the following Section:
3A (1) No person or facility that is not a hospital or a program approved by the Minister as a hospital pursuant to the Hospitals Act or any other enactment shall provide a medically required insured hospital service to a resident of the Province.
(2) All residents of the Province are entitled to receive medically required insured hospital services without charge as insured medical services.
2 Section 4 of Chapter 208 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Hospitals Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsection:
(3) The Governor in Council shall not approve a hospital, including a program approved by the Minister as a hospital, under this Section that is to be operated on a for-profit basis.
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