Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 3) (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 3)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 270

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General 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 8 October 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

NICOLA ROXON

Minister for Health and Ageing

1. Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 3).

1. Commencement

These Regulations commence on the commencement of the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2009.

1. Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.

Schedule 1          Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1]         Regulation 6EF

substitute

6EFServices for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee (Act s 10 (2) (aa))

For paragraph 10 (2) (aa) of the Act, the following services are prescribed:

(a)a service that is:

(i)described in an item of the general medical services table; and

(ii)mentioned in column 3 of Schedule 6;

(b)a service:

(i)that is described in an item of the diagnostic imaging services table; and

(ii)to which rule 28 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2009 applies.

Note

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