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HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT (REVIVAL OF TABLE ITEMS) BILL 2009
2008-2009
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Health Insurance Amendment (Revival
of Table Items) Bill 2009
No. , 2009
(Senators Cormann, Fielding and Xenophon)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act
1973 to provide for the revival of certain medical
services items should later items be disallowed
i Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Previous Table Items) Bill 2009 No. , 2009
Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendment relating to revival of medical services
items
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Previous Table Items) Bill 2009 No. , 2009 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act
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1973 to provide for the revival of certain medical
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services items should later items be disallowed
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment
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(Revival of Table Items) Act 2009.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.
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2 Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Previous Table Items) Bill 2009 No. ,
2009
3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendment relating to revival of medical services items Schedule 1
Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Previous Table Items) Bill 2009 No. , 2009
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Schedule 1--Amendment relating to revival of
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medical services items
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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1 At the end of section 4
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Add:
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(3) If an item in a table of medical services prescribed in accordance
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with subsection (1) is disallowed under section 42 of the
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Legislative Instruments Act 2003, the corresponding item, if any, in
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the previous regulations is taken to apply in place of the disallowed
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item from the time of disallowance.
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(4) In subsection (3):
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corresponding item means:
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(a) the item in the previous regulations with the same item
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number; or
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(b) if no item satisfies paragraph (a)--the item in the previous
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regulations covering the same medical services;
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as the disallowed item.
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previous regulations means the regulations that were in force
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immediately prior to the commencement of the disallowed item.
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2 Application
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The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to any
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disallowance after 26 October 2009 of an item in a table of medical
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services prescribed in accordance with subsection 4(1) of the Health
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Insurance Act 1973.
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