Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014 (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014

No. 78, 2014

An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes

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Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014

No. 78, 2014

An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes

[Assented to 17 July 2014]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	17 July 2014
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	1 January 2015.	1 January 2015
3. Schedule 1, Part 2	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	17 July 2014

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1Extended general safety‑net amount

Health Insurance Act 1973

1. 1

   Subsection 8(1A) (definition of extended general safety‑net amount)

   Omit “$1,000”, substitute “$2,000”.

2. 2

   Application—medical expenses incurred on or after 1 January 2015

   The amendment made by item 1 of this Schedule applies in relation to medical expenses incurred on or after 1 January 2015.

3

Application—indexation of amount

The amount of $2,000 inserted by item 1 of this Schedule is not indexed under section 10A of the Health Insurance Act 1973 on 1 January 2015.

Part 2Confirmation of family composition

Health Insurance Act 1973

4

Subsection 10AE(1)

Omit “, in writing,”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 March 2014

Senate on 24 June 2014]

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