Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 4) (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 4)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 236

I, JOHN LANDY, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 20 October 2005

JOHN LANDY

Administrator

By the Administrator’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1. Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 4).

1. Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

1. Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.

Schedule 1          Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1]          Paragraphs 14 (2) (f) and (g)

substitute

(f)professional services rendered for the purposes of, or in relation to:

(i)the transplantation of a thoracic or abdominal organ, other than a kidney, or of part of an organ of that kind; or

(ii)the transplantation of a kidney in conjunction with the transplantation of a thoracic or other abdominal organ, or of a part of an organ of that kind;

if the services are rendered to a patient of a hospital.

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See