Health ref. no. 795
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973
ORDER UNDER SUBSECTION 6(1)
I, NATASHA RYAN, Delegate for the Minister for Health, in accordance with the powers vested in the Minister under subsection 6(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) hereby DECLARE that:
(a) Every person included in the specified class of persons:
(i) the person is a citizen of Italy who is eligible for services under the national health legislation of Italy; and
(ii) the person is lawfully present but not ordinarily resident in Australia,
being a person who but for this Order, would not be an eligible person for the purposes of the Act shall, for a period not exceeding six months after the person’s last entry to Australia, be treated as being an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.
(b) This Order shall have effect from 11 September 2015 to 31 December 2017 inclusive.
Dated this 10 day of September 2015.
NATASHA RYAN
DELEGATE OF THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH