Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 4)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1832

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 24 June 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 4).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 July 2004.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2003

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 3 (1), before definition of attendance of a minor nature or minor attendance

insert

ACRRM means the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

[2] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 3 (1), definition of general practitioner, paragraph (d)

omit

practitioner.

insert

practitioner; or

[3] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 3 (1), definition of general practitioner, after paragraph (d)

insert

 (e) a practitioner who is undertaking a placement in general practice as part of the Pre-vocational General Practice Placements Program administered by the ACRRM, RACGP or GPET.

[4] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 3 (1), after definition of general practitioner

insert

GPET means the body registered under the Corporations Act 2001 as General Practice Education and Training Limited (ACN 095 433 140).

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 255, as amended by 2003 Nos. 318 and 359; 2004 Nos. 65, 77 and 126.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 July 2004.