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HEALTH INSURANCE (PROFESSIONAL SERVICES REVIEW) REGULATIONS 1999 - NOTES

- made under the Health Insurance Act 1973

Statutory Rules 1999 No. 258 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 29 July 2006
taking into account amendments up to SLI 2006 No. 199

The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney‑General’s Department, Canberra


Contents

Part 1                    Introductory                                                               

                        1     Name of Regulations see Note 1]                                     3

                        2     Commencement                                                              3

                        3     Definition                                                                         3

Part 2                    Adequate and contemporaneous records        

                        4     Purpose of this Part                                                         4

                        5     An adequate record                                                          4

                        6     A contemporaneous record                                               4

Part 3                    Prescribed pattern of services                              

                        7     Definition                                                                         5

                        8     Purpose of this Part                                                         5

                        9     Practitioners affected by these Regulations                        5

5>                       10     Circumstances constituting a prescribed pattern                 5

                       11     Exceptional circumstances                                               6

Part 4                    Appropriate regulatory and other bodies for referral of professional issues                                                                                       

                       12     Appropriate body for non‑compliance with professional standards        7

Schedule 1             Regulatory and other bodies to which non‑compliance by general practitioner may be referred                                                                         8

Schedule 2             Regulatory and other bodies to which non‑compliance by practitioner other than a general practitioner may be referred                                         9

Notes                                                                                                          12

 


  

Notes to the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Regulations 1999

Note 1

The Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Regulations 1999 (in force under the Health Insurance Act 1973) as shown in this compilation comprise Statutory Rules 1999 No. 258 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, which came into force on 1 January 2005, it is a requirement for all non‑exempt legislative instruments to be registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.  From 1 January 2005 the Statutory Rules series ceased to exist and was replaced with Select Legislative Instruments (SLI series).  Numbering conventions remain the same, ie Year and Number.

Table of Instruments

Year and
number

Date of notification
in Gazette or FRLI registration

Date of
commencement

Application, saving or
transitional provisions

1999 No. 258

27 Oct 1999

1 Nov 1999

 

1999 No. 346

22 Dec 1999

1 Jan 2000

2001 No. 45

16 Mar 2001

16 Mar 2001

2006 No. 199

28 July 2006 (see F2006L02427)

29 July 2006

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended      rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

Part 1

 

Note 1 to r. 3.........................

am. 1999 No. 346

Note 2 to r. 3.........................

ad. 1999 No. 346

Part 3

 

Part 3......................................

ad. 1999 No. 346

R. 7.........................................

ad. 1999 No. 346

 

am. 2001 No. 45; 2006 No. 199

R. 8.........................................

ad. 1999 No. 346

R. 9.........................................

ad. 1999 No. 346

R. 10.......................................

ad. 1999 No. 346

R. 11.......................................

ad. 1999 No. 346

Part 4

 

Part 4......................................

ad. 2006 No. 199

R. 12.......................................

ad. 2006 No. 199

Schedule 1

 

Schedule 1............................

ad. 2006 No. 199

Schedule 2

 

Schedule 2............................

ad. 2006 No. 199