Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 191

 

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 20 February 1986.

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 22 February 1986.

Prescribed particulars—sub-section 19 (6) of the Act

2. Regulation 2ada of the Health Insurance Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “the surname, first Christian or given name, and initials of any subsequent Christian or given name,” and substituting “the name”;

(b) by omitting paragraph (1) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b) the date on which the professional service was rendered and a description of the professional service sufficient to identify the item that relates to that service;”;

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “the name, address of the place of practice, and provider number” and substituting “the name and either the address of the place of practice, or the provider number in respect of the place of practice”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (5) (a) “the name and address (being the address of the place of practice at which the service was rendered) of the practitioner or optometrist who rendered such a professional service together with a statement that the professional service was rendered by that person and” and substituting “the

 

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name of the practitioner or optometrist who rendered such a professional service, a statement that the professional service was rendered by that person and either the address of the place of practice at which the service was rendered or”; and

(e) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “the name, address of the place of practice, and provider number” and substituting “the name, and either the address of the place of practice, or the provider number in respect of the place of practice”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 February 1986.

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.

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