Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 1631

 

Health Insurance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 22 July 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Health

 

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 August 1987.

Prescribed class of patients—paragraph 13 (1) (a) of the Act

2. Regulation 2ac of the Health Insurance Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (h) “and”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (j) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(j) patients who, by reason of their physical deformity, are unable to wear spectacles and in respect of whom a medical practitioner or an optometrist has prescribed, or recommended the prescription of, contact lenses; and

(k) patients in respect of whom an optometrist has certified that the patient has an ocular condition (other than a condition referred to in paragraphs 1 (a) to (h) (inclusive)) requiring for correction the use of contact lenses.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 July 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1987 No. 32 and see also Statutory Rules 1987 No. 32.

 

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(S.R. 185/87) Cat. No.  16/13.7.1987