Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 6) (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 6)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 2372

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 5 August 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. 6).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 6 August 2004.

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

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2, subparagraph 3 (3) (c) (iii)

omit

Act.

insert

Act; or

[2]Schedule 1, Part 2, after paragraph 3 (3) (c)

insert

• (d)

  a medical practitioner who:

  • (i)

    is registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical Deputising Service — After Hours Other Medical Practitioners Program; and

  • (ii)

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

  • (iii)

    is not vocationally registered under section 3F of the Act.

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

omit

benefits.

insert

benefits; and

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

insert

• (d)

  the Medical Deputising Service — After Hours Other Medical Practitioners Program is a program administered by the Commission that, in relation to medical services provided in accordance with the Program, provides a particular level of medicare benefits.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 255, as amended by 2003 Nos. 318 and 359; 2004 Nos. 65, 77, 126, 183 and 184.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette