Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 230

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT

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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 this twenty-fifth day of October 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

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AMENDMENTS OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE

REGULATIONS2

• 1.

  After regulation 9A of the Health Insurance Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

“9BPrescribed authorities for the purposes of paragraph 130 (3) (b) of the Act

 For the purposes of paragraph 130 (3) (b) of the Act, each authority the name of which is specified in column 2 of Schedule 3, being an authority established or constituted by a law of the State or Territory specified in column 1 of that Schedule opposite to the name of that authority, is a prescribed authority”.

2Schedule 3

 The Health Insurance Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:

 SCHEDULE 3 Regulation 9B

PRESCRIBED AUTHORITIES FOR THE PURPOSES OF PARAGRAPH 130 (3) (b) OF THE ACT

 

Column 1

State or Territory

Column 2

Name of authority

New South Wales...................................................

New South Wales Medical Board

Victoria.................................................................

Medical Board of Victoria

Queensland............................................................

The Medical Board of Queensland

South Australia......................................................

The Medical Board of South Australia

Western Australia...................................................

Medical Board

Tasmania...............................................................

Medical Council of Tasmania

Australian Capital Territory....................................

Medical Board

Northern Territory..................................................

Medical Board

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by Statutory Rules 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; and 1978 Nos. 95 and 177.