Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Fees) Act 2021

No. 40, 2021

An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Fees) Act 2021

No. 40, 2021

An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes

[Assented to 27 May 2021]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Fees) Act 2021.

2  Commencement

 (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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance Act 1973

1  Subsection 3DB(3)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

 (3) An application under subsection (1) or (2) must be in writing.

2  Subsection 3E(2)

Omit “and on payment of the prescribed fee”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 17 February 2021

Senate on 12 May 2021]