Hearing Services (Participants in the Voucher System) Determination 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 1997) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Hearing Services Administration Act 1997

Hearing Services (Participants in the Voucher System) Determination 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 1997)

I, PATRICIA MARY WORTH, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services, acting for the Minister, make this determination under subsection 13 (1) of the Hearing Services Administration Act 1997.

Dated 2 December 1997.

PATRICIA WORTH

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services

for the Minister for Health and Family Services

1.   Amendment

1.1   Hearing Services (Participants in the Voucher System) Determination 1997 is amended as set out in this determination.

[NOTE:  This determination commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s 46A and 48.]

2.   Section 6 (Classes of hearing services)

2.1   Table B, Class 1:

Omit point 3, substitute:

“3.          Provision of a hearing device that:

(a)   meets the specifications approved by the Minister; and

(b)   is approved by the Minister, in writing, for this section on the basis that the device:

(i)   has been approved by the Minister or the Office, under section 11 of the Hearing Services Rules of Conduct 1997, for fitting at no cost to participants; and

(ii)   is clinically necessary and appropriate to the participant’s hearing loss, capacity to benefit from its use and life circumstances

3A.        Provision of a hearing device that:

(a)   meets the specifications approved by the Minister; and

(b)   is approved by the Minister, in writing, for this section on the basis that the device:

(i)   has been approved by the Minister or the Office, under section 11 of the Hearing Services Rules of Conduct 1997, as a device for which the participant can be asked to make a payment to the provider; and

(ii)   is clinically suitable to the participant’s hearing loss

[NOTE:  Subsection 7 (2) applies.]”.

2.2   Table B, Class 2:

Omit point 3, substitute:

“3.          Provision of a hearing device that:

(a)   meets the specifications approved by the Minister; and

(b)   is approved by the Minister, in writing, for this section on the basis that the device:

(i)   has been approved by the Minister or the Office, under section 11 of the Hearing Services Rules of Conduct 1997, for fitting at no cost to participants; and

(ii)   is clinically necessary and appropriate to the participant’s hearing loss, capacity to benefit from its use and life circumstances

3A.        Provision of a hearing device that:

(a)   meets the specifications approved by the Minister; and

(b)   is approved by the Minister, in writing, for this section on the basis that the device:

(i)   has been approved by the Minister or the Office, under section 11 of the Hearing Services Rules of Conduct 1997, as a device for which the participant can be asked to make a payment to the provider; and

(ii)   is clinically suitable to the participant’s hearing loss

[NOTE:  Subsection 7 (2) applies.]”.

3.   Section 7 (Charges payable by participant who comes within Class 1 or 2)

3.1   Subsection 7 (2):

Omit “paragraph (b) of item 3”, substitute “item 3A”.