Health Insurance Amendment (Workforce Programs) Regulations 2023 (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment (Workforce Programs) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 8 June 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance Amendment (Workforce Programs) Regulations 2023.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument 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
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2023.	1 July 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1. (2)

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

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Health Insurance Regulations 2018

1. 1

   Subsection 26(2) (table item 2, column 2, paragraphs (h) and (i))

Repeal the paragraphs.

2

Subsection 26(2) (table items 3 to 6)

Repeal the items, substitute:

3	General Practice Workforce Inc, trading as Health Recruitment Plus	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program
4	Health Network Northern Territory Ltd (ACN 158 970 480)	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program
5	Health Workforce Queensland Ltd (ACN 065 574 996)	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program
6	NSW Rural Doctors Network Ltd (ACN 081 388 810)	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program

3

Subsection 26(2) (table items 10 to 12)

Repeal the items, substitute:

10	Rural Doctors Workforce Agency Incorporated	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program
11	Rural Workforce Agency, Victoria Limited (ACN 081 163 519)	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program
12	Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine Ltd (ACN 123 188 367)	More Doctors for Rural Australia Program