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1996
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Medicare Levy
Amendment Bill 1996
No. ,
1996
(Treasury)
A Bill
for an Act to amend the Medicare Levy Act 1986, and for related
purposes
9604520¾1,550/27.5.1996¾(45/96) Cat. No. 96 4608 6
ISBN 0644 444762
Contents
Medicare Levy Act
1986 6mla00h1.html
Medicare Levy Act 1986 6mla00h1.html
A Bill for an Act to
amend the Medicare Levy Act 1986, and for
related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Medicare Levy Amendment Act
1996.
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Schedule 1 commences, or is taken to
have commenced, on 1 July 1996.
(3) Schedule 2 commences on 1 July 1997.
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this
Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
its terms.
1 Section 6
Omit “1.5%” (wherever occurring), substitute
“1.7%”.
2 Subsection 8(2)
Omit “0.185”, substitute “0.183”.
3 Subsection 8(2)
Omit “1.5%”, substitute “1.7%”.
4 After section 8
Insert:
(1) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), this section applies to a person
during a period during which the person is entitled to free medical treatment in
respect of every incapacity, disease or disabling condition because the person
is:
(a) a member of the Defence Force; or
(b) a relative of, or otherwise associated with, a member of the Defence
Force.
(2) If the person is:
(a) a person to whom this section applies for the whole of the year of
income; or
(b) a person to whom this section applies for part or parts only of the
year of income and a prescribed person for the remainder of that year;
the amount of levy payable by the person is two-seventeenths of the amount
of levy that, apart from this section, would have been payable by the person
under this Act.
(3) If the person is a person to whom this section applies for part or
parts only of the year of income and subsection (2) does not apply, the amount
of levy payable by the person is the amount worked out using the
formula:
where:
defence component is the amount obtained by
multiplying:
(a) the amount of levy that would have been payable by the person for the
year of income under subsection (2) if that subsection applied; and
(b) the number of days during that year on which the person was a person
to whom this section applies.
ordinary component is the amount obtained by
multiplying:
(a) the amount of levy that would have been payable by the person for the
year of income if this section did not apply; and
(b) the number of days during that year on which the person was
neither:
(i) a person to whom this section applies; nor
(ii) a prescribed person.
(4) A person is not a person to whom this section applies during a
particular period unless every person who is a dependant of the first-mentioned
person during that period is or is taken to be, or apart from this subsection or
subsection 251U(2) would or would be taken to be:
(a) a person to whom this section applies; or
(b) a prescribed person;
during that period.
(5) If:
(a) a person would not, apart from this subsection, be a person to whom
this section applies during a particular period; and
(b) the person would, apart from subsection (4), be a person to whom this
section applies during that period;
the person is taken to be a person to whom this section applies during
one-half of that period.
5 At the end of section 9
Add:
(2) This section does not apply to a person to whom subsection 8A(3)
applies.
6 Application
The amendments made by this Schedule apply for the financial year
commencing on 1 July 1996.
1 Section 6
Omit “1.7%” (wherever occurring), substitute
“1.5%”.
2 Subsection 8(2)
Omit “0.183”, substitute “0.185”.
3 Subsection 8(2)
Omit “1.7%”, substitute “1.5%”.
4 Section 8A
Repeal the section.
5 Subsection 9(2)
Repeal the subsection.
6 Application
The amendments made by this Schedule apply for the financial year
commencing on 1 July 1997 and all later financial years.