Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory

Rules1991No. 314 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, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

 Dated 9 October 1991.

  BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

B. HOWE

Minister of State for Health, Housing

and Community Services

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations commence on 1 November 1991.

2.   Amendment

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

3.   Regulation 2adb (Medicare benefit not payable in respect of certain professional services)

3.1   Paragraph 2adb (2) (e):

Omit “related”, substitute “in relation”.

3.2   Subregulation 2adb (2):

Add at the end:

• “;(f)

  professional services rendered for the purposes of, or in relation to:

   (i) the transplantation of a thoracic or abdominal organ, other than a kidney, or of a part of an organ of that kind; or

   (ii) the transplantation of a kidney in conjunction with the transplantation of a thoracic or other abdominal organ, or of a part of an organ of that kind;

   if the services are rendered to an in-patient of a hospital.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 October 1991.

 

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135 (commenced 3 July 1975; disallowed 4 September 1975); 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 (commenced 7 November 1985; disallowed 15 April 1986); 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 No. 82.