Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEARING SERVICES AND AGHS REFORM ACT 1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title [see Note 1]  
   2.      Commencement [see Note 1]  

   PART 2--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE CORPORATISATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT HEALTH SERVICE (AGHS)

           Division 1--Introduction

   3.      Simplified outline  
   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Nominated company  
   6.      Commonwealth-owned company  
   7.      Crown to be bound  
   8.      External Territories  
   9.      Extra-territorial operation  

           Division 2--Transfers from the Commonwealth to the nominated company

   10.     Transfer of assets  
   11.     Transfer of contractual rights and obligations  
   12.     Transfer of liabilities  
   13.     Transfers of land may be registered  
   14.     This Division does not modify registers kept by land registration officials  
   15.     Transfer of pending proceedings  
   16.     Transfer of records  

           Division 4--Exemption of nominated company from State and Territory taxes

   20.     Exemption of nominated company from State and Territory taxes  

           Division 5--Miscellaneous

   21.     Nominated company not to be an agency of the Commonwealth etc.  
   22.     Compensation--constitutional safety-net  

   PART 3--AMENDMENTS

   23.     Schedule(s)  
           SCHEDULE 2 Amendment of the Social Security Act 1991
           SCHEDULE 3 Amendment of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
           SCHEDULE 4 Amendment of the Privacy Act 1988