NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1993 No. 106, 1993 - SECT 9 Indexation

NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1993 No. 106, 1993 - SECT 9

9. Section 99G of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from subsection (1) "An amount" and substituting "Subject to
subsection (1A), an amount";

   (b)  by omitting from the second column of Item 4 of the CPI Indexation
        Table
in subsection (1) "restricted";

   (c)  by omitting Item 5 of the CPI Indexation Table in subsection (1);

   (d)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

"(1A) The general patient safety net is not to be indexed in 1994.";

   (e)  by adding at the end of subsection (2) the following Note:

"Note: The Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community
Services can tell you what the current indexed amounts are.";

   (f)  by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

"(3A) For the purposes of the definition of 'current figure' in subsection
(3), the general patient safety net is taken not to have been indexed on or
before 1 January 1994.".