Health Insurance Commission Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 881

 

Health Insurance Commission Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Health Insurance Commission Act 1973.

Dated 29 June 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health

 

After regulation 2aof the Health Insurance Commission Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Additional functions of the Commission

“3. (1) For the purposes of sub-section 8e (1) of the Act the following functions are prescribed, that is to say, to plan and establish the organization required to administer a health insurance scheme to provide benefits in respect of medical, optometrical, dental and pathology services to all Australian residents.

“(2) The Commission shall perform the functions prescribed in sub-regulation (1) in such a manner as to comply with any directions given from time to time by the Minister.

“(3) In sub-regulation (1), Australian resident’ has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 27 as amended by 1976 Nos. 21 and 146; 1982 No. 249.

 

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