Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 871

 

Health Insurance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and in accordance with a recommendation made under paragraph 67 (1) (aa) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 to the Minister of State for Health by the Medicare Benefits Advisory Committee, hereby make the following Regulation under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 9 May 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Health

 

Medicare benefit not payable in respect of certain professional services

Regulation 2adb of the Health Insurance Regulations is amended by adding at the end the following sub-regulation:

“(4) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), professional services rendered in relation to the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of multiple sclerosis shall be taken to be professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 May 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1986 No. 19 and see also Statutory Rules 1986 Nos. 19 and 20.

 

Printed by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer

S.R. 376/85―Cat. No.  10/10.3.1986