Act No. 17 / 1957 Coll.
Act amending and supplementing Act No. 103 / 1951 Coll., on Uniform Prevention and Treatment Care
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Effective from 01.01.1957
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Law
of 6 March 1957
amending and supplementing Act No. 103 / 1951 Coll., on Uniform Prevention and Treatment Care.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Act No. 103 / 1951 Coll., on uniform preventive and therapeutic care, as amended by the legal measure of the Bureau of the National Assembly No. 64 / 1955 Coll., is amended as follows:
1.
"Unified preventive and medical care is planned, organised, managed and controlled by the Ministry of Health and the Executive Authorities of the National Committees (hereinafter referred to as the" National Health Administration Bodies'). In carrying out their tasks, these bodies, in cooperation with voluntary organisations, in particular the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, shall rely on the widest participation of workers, who also have direct control over the implementation of preventive and therapeutic care. ';
2.
"(1) Single preventive and medical care includes, in particular, preventive care, disease and accident treatment, maternity assistance, dental care, mutilation, degeneration and body defects, fertility and rehabilitation assistance. The provision of medicines and medical and orthopaedic devices is also part of preventive and therapeutic care. In the framework of preventive and medical care, the ability to work shall also be decided, unless it is for other authorities to decide.
(2) The State provides preventive and medical care
(a) free of charge:
1. Staff, equal persons and their family members,
2. members of production cooperatives and their family members;
3. pensioners and their family members,
4. to all children under 1 year of age in full and to other children under 15 years of age within the scope laid down by specific regulations;
5. all women with regard to childbirth care;
6. members of single agricultural cooperatives and members of their families, provided that they have concluded a sickness insurance contract, to the extent and under the conditions laid down in this Treaty,
7. members of single agricultural cooperatives and their family members, unless such cooperatives have concluded a sickness insurance contract, and individually management farmers, cooperating members of their families and family members, as well as workers engaged only in occasional employment, in an accident at work (occupational diseases),
8. All citizens with regard to preventive care, the treatment of active tuberculus and sexual diseases and certain services in other communicable diseases;
(b) for remuneration in other cases; if the persons liable for payment cannot bear it without endangering their own nutrition or nutrition of those against whom they have a maintenance obligation, preventive and medical care shall be provided on behalf of the State Health Administration.
(3) The Ministry of Health may, in agreement with the central authorities involved, extend the scope of preventive and therapeutic care and the range of persons to whom such care is provided free of charge, as well as regulate the management of preventive and therapeutic care matters and determine when reimbursement of travel and other expenses incurred in providing such care is granted and when and to what extent it is paid for certain services. ';
3.
"The State provides preventive and therapeutic care in local and competitive health facilities. If medical institutions serve at all times the purposes of university medical education, they shall be referred to as faculty. ';
4. Article 11 (1) reads as follows:
"(1) Preventive and medical care facilities may be effectively associated with each other or with other healthcare establishments in order to enhance such care or to manage their tasks more efficiently. ';
5. Part II, including the title:
"Spa care
Persons whose medical condition requires this may receive preventive and therapeutic care, mainly using local natural medical resources or favourable climatic conditions (spa care).
(1) The costs of spa care for persons who receive such care free of charge shall be reimbursed to the spa facilities by the authorities on whose behalf the spa care is to be provided, unless otherwise provided for in specific provisions. Other persons shall be provided with spa care for their own account; if the persons liable for payment cannot bear it without endangering their own nutrition or nutrition of the persons to whom they have a maintenance obligation, the costs of the spa care shall be borne by the State Health Service.
(2) Spa care is carried out exclusively at the spa facilities of the State Health Administration, which the Minister for Health will designate and whose administration and operation will be regulated by the Minister for Health.
The Ministry of Health shall determine in agreement with the participating central authorities the conditions and arrangements for providing spa care; it may also determine when, outside the cases referred to in Paragraph 14, spa care shall be provided free of charge and on whose account. ';
6. In Paragraph 16 (1) (2), the citation § 5 (c) is replaced by the citation § 5 (2).
The Minister for Health is hereby authorised to declare in the Collection of Laws the full text of Act No. 103 / 1951 Coll., on uniform preventive and medical care, as is apparent from the later regulations.
This Law shall take effect on 1 January 1957; It shall be implemented by the Minister for Health in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
Zaporocký v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Broad v. r.
Plojhar v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 17 / 1957 Coll., amending and supplementing Act No. 103 / 1951 Coll., on Uniform Prevention and Treatment Care |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 23.03.1957 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1957 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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