
Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Act 2018
No. 103, 2018
An Act to amend the Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Act 2000, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Act 2000

Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Act 2018
No. 103, 2018
An Act to amend the Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Act 2000, and for related purposes
[Assented to 21 September 2018]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Act 2018.
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 21 September 2018 |
2. Schedule 1 | The later of: (a) 1 December 2018; and (b) the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 1 December 2018 (paragraph (a) applies) |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Act 2000
1 Subsection 5(2)
Omit “1 year, the tax is $1,000”, substitute “2 years, the tax is $2,000”.
2 Subsection 5(3)
Omit “1 year”, substitute “2 years”.
3 At the end of subsection 5(3)
Add:
Note: Approval Principles made under section 23DNBA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 may prescribe a number of matters, including the period for which an approval may be granted.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 23 May 2018
Senate on 19 June 2018]
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