Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 2051

 

Health Insurance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government 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 22 August 1985.

J. A. ROWLAND

ADMINISTRATOR

ByHis Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Health

 

Medicare benefit not payable in respect of certain professional services

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

“(3) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1),professional services rendered in association with the injection of human chorionic gonadotrophin in the management of obesity shall be taken to be professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 August 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1985 No. 36 and see also Statutory Rules 1983 Nos. 36, 50 and 95.

 

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