HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1989 NO. 54 

HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1989 NO. 54 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Principal Regulations  
2. Interpretation  
3.  
4. Schedule 2  


1989 No. 54 HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 1
Principal Regulations


  1. In these Regulations, "Principal Regulations" means the Health Insurance
Regulations.


1989 No. 54 HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 2
Interpretation


  2. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting the
definition of "provider number" and substituting the following definition:
  "provider number" means the identification number allocated to a
practitioner, an approved pathology practitioner or a participating
optometrist for the purposes of the Act;".


1989 No. 54 HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 3


  3. Regulation 9A of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following
regulation substituted:
Allowances for witnesses at hearings before Medical Services Committee of
Inquiry or Optometrical Services Committee of Inquiry
  "9A. The allowances for expenses payable under section 100 or 106FE of the
Act in respect of the attendance of a witness at a hearing before a Medical
Services Committee of Inquiry or an Optometrical Services Committee of Inquiry
are the allowances ascertained by the Committee in accordance with Schedule
2.".


1989 No. 54 HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 4
Schedule 2


  4. Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting items 1, 2
and 3 and substituting the following items:
  "1. A witness attending, because of his or her professional, scientific or
other special skill or knowledge, a hearing before a Committee shall be paid
the allowance that the witness would be paid under the scale in the Second
Schedule to the Federal Court Rules, as in force from time to time, if called
before the Federal Court of Australia.
  2. A witness, other than a witness referred to in item 1, attending a
hearing before a Committee shall be paid the allowance that the witness would
be paid under the scale in the Second Schedule to the Federal Court Rules, as
in force from time to time, if called before the Federal Court of Australia.
  3. A witness attending a hearing before a Committee who is remunerated in
his or her occupation by wages, salary or fees shall, in addition to an
allowance payable to the witness under item 1 or 2, be paid an allowance equal
to the amount of wages, salary or fees lost because of the attendance.".


- NOTES


1989 No. 54*1* HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 April 1989.
*2* Statutory Rules 1975 No. 8 as amended to date. For previous amendments see
Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 6 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 No. 6.