Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 5) (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 5)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1842

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, 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 24 June 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 5).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2004.

3Amendment of Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations2003.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 3 (3) (a)

substitute

• (a)

  a medical practitioner (including an overseas trained practitioner or a temporary resident medical practitioner) who:

  • (i)

    is registered as a medical practitioner under the Rural Other Medical Practitioners’ Program; and

  • (ii)

    is providing general medical services in accordance with that Program; or

[2]Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 3 (4) (a)

omit

provided to patients in rural and remote areas,

insert

provided in accordance with the Program,

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 255, as amended by 2003 Nos. 318 and 359; 2004 Nos. 65, 77, 126 and 183.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette