New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE LEVIES ACT 1982 - SECT 16B

16B Contributors

(1) Any person who is not:

(a) a contributor to a health benefits fund conducted by an organisation to which section 10 applies, or

(b) a person who is otherwise exempt from the payment of fees for the provision of ambulance services,

is eligible to become a member of the State Ambulance Insurance Plan.

(2) There shall be the following 2 classes of membership of the State Ambulance Insurance Plan:

(a) Single membership comprising a single person,

(b) Family membership comprising a person and the dependants of the person.

(3) A reference in subsection (2) (b) to the dependants of a person includes a reference to the spouse of the person and to any other person who is a dependent child (within the meaning of section 10AA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth) in relation to the person.

(4) In this section:
"spouse" of a person includes a person with whom the person has a de facto relationship within the meaning of the Property (Relationships) Act 1984 .