Ambulance Service Levy (Amendment) Act 1992 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Ambulance Service Levy (Amendment) Act

1992

No. 79 of 1992

An Act to amend the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990

[Notified in ACT Gazette S236:  24 December 1992]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Ambulance Service Levy  (Amendment) Act  1992.

Commencement

2.  (1)  This Act, other than paragraph 5 (a), commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  Paragraph 5 (a) commences on 1 February 1993.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990.1

Ambulance service

4.  Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “for Health, Education and the Arts”.

Calculation of ambulance levy

5.  Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsections:

“(1)  The ambulance levy payable by a health benefits organization in relation to a month shall be calculated in accordance with the formula—

(S + 2F) x RA x

where—

S    is the number of contributors (other than contributors whose contributions are exempt contributions) who, at the beginning of the reference month, were contributing to the organization at the single rate;

F    is the number of contributors (other than contributors whose contributions are exempt contributions) who, at the beginning of the reference month, were contributing to the organization at the family rate;

RA    is the relevant amount;

D    is the number of days in the reference month in relation to that month.

“(2)  In subsection (1)—

(a)a reference to contributors at the single rate is a reference to contributors for benefits in respect of themselves; and

(b)a reference to contributors at the family rate is a reference to contributors other than contributors referred to in paragraph (a).”;

(b)by omitting from subsection (4) “for Finance and Urban Services”; and

(c)by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “relevant amount” in subsection (6) “for Finance and Urban Services”.

NOTE

1. Act No. 7, 1990 as amended by Act No. 106, 1991.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 10 December 1992]

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