Health ref. no.791

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

ORDER UNDER SUBSECTION 6(1)

I, PETER DUTTON, Minister for Health, pursuant to subsection 6(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) hereby DECLARE that:

(a)           Every person included in the specified class of persons:

(i)                  is an unauthorised maritime arrival; and

(ii)               who is the holder of a Bridging E (Class WE) visa,

being a person who but for this Order, would not be an eligible person for the purposes of the Act shall, during any period in which the person was, or is, in Australia on, or after, 25 November 2011, be treated as having been an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.

(b)           In this Order the term unauthorised maritime arrival has the meaning given by the Migration Act 1958, as in force from time to time.

(c)           This Order shall have effect from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017 inclusive.

Dated this    15th day of December 2014.

PETER DUTTON

MINISTER FOR HEALTH