Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1994

No. 138 1

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Health Insurance Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 16 May 1994.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

CARMEN LAWRENCE

Minister for Human Services and Health

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations commence on 1 July 1994.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Health Insurance Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 24

3.1   Omit the regulation, substitute:

Allowances for witnesses at hearings before a Professional Services Review Committee

“24.

For the purposes of subsection 106C (1) of the Act, the allowances payable in respect of attendance by a witness at a hearing before a Professional Services Review Committee are the allowances ascertained by the Committee in accordance with Schedule 2.”.

4.   Schedule 2

4.1   Clause 5:

Omit all the words after “means”, substitute “a Professional Services Review Committee”.

5.   Transitional

5.1   Allowances payable to a witness under regulation 24 and Schedule 2 of the Health Insurance Regulations as in force on 30 June 1994 continue to be payable on and after 1 July 1994 in respect of a matter mentioned in subsection 12 (1) of the Health Legislation (Professional Services Review) Amendment Act 1994, until that matter is concluded.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 May 1994.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135; 1976 Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No. 230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157, 251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231, 253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162; 1985 Nos. 36, 50, 95, 205 and 290; 1986 Nos. 19, 20, 87 and 326; 1987 Nos. 32, 163 and 166; 1988 No. 314; 1989 Nos. 6, 54, 117 and 293; 1990 No. 25; 1991 Nos. 82, 314, 365 and 441; 1992 Nos. 42, 111, 239, 335 and 431; 1993 Nos. 106, 130 and 154; 1994 Nos. 20, 27 and 137.