Health ref. no. 796
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 Malta who is ordinarily resident therein; and
(ii) the person is a holder of a current Maltese passport or a current Identity Card issued under the Identity Card Act 1975, or included as a dependent in any of those documents; and
(iii) is not a person who is the holder of a student visa under the Migration Act 1958 and its Regulations; and
(iv) 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