Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Act 2002

No. 109, 2002

An Act to amend the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998

Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Act 2002

No. 109, 2002

An Act to amend the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998, and for related purposes

[Assented to 2 December 2002]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Act 2002.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998

1  Subsection 4(3)

Omit “$29,655,056,000”, substitute “$31,800,000,000”.

2  At the end of section 4

Add:

 (5) The Minister must present to each House of the Parliament as soon as practicable after 30 June 2003 a statement of the total amount paid by way of financial assistance under this section.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 August 2002

Senate on 11 November 2002]