Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Bulk-Billed Services) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Bulk‑Billed Services) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 15 June 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Bulk-Billed Services) Regulations 2017.

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 2017.	1 July 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2017

1

Amendments of listed provisions

The items of the table in Division 2.31 of Schedule 1 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the following table.

Amendments relating to the management of bulk‑billed services
Item	Table item	Omit	Substitute
1	Item 10990	7.20	7.30
2	Item 10991	10.85	11.00
3	Item 10992	10.85	11.00