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Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1998

  • - C2004A05340
  • No longer in force
Act No. 29 of 1998 as made
An Act to amend the Medicare Levy Act 1986, and for related purposes
Date of Assent 17 Apr 1998
Date of repeal 10 Mar 2016
Repealed by Amending Acts 1990 to 1999 Repeal Act 2016
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Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1998

 

No. 29, 1998

 

 

 

 

  

  


 

 

 

 

Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1998

 

No.29 , 1998

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Medicare Levy Act 1986, and for related purposes

  

  


Contents

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

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

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

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Medicare Levy Act 1986                     

 


Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1998

No.29 , 1998

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Medicare Levy Act 1986, and for related purposes

[Assented to 17 April 1998]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Medicare Levy Amendment Act 1998.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Subject to subsection (2), this Act is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1997.

             (2)  Items 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Schedule 1 are taken to have commenced on 1 July 1997, immediately after the commencement of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 2 to, the Medicare Levy Amendment Act (No. 1) 1997.

3  Schedule(s)

                   Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendment of the Medicare Levy Act 1986

  

1  Subsections 7(1) and (2)

Omit “$13,127”, substitute “$13,389”.

2  Subsection 7(2)

Omit “$14,191”, substitute “$14,474”.

3  Subsection 8(5) (definition of family income threshold)

Omit “$22,152”, substitute “$22,594”.

4  Subsection 8(6)

Omit “$22,152”, substitute “$22,594”.

5  Paragraph 8D(3)(c)

Omit “$13,127”, substitute “$13,389”.

6  Subparagraph 8D(4)(a)(ii)

Omit “$13,127”, substitute “$13,389”.

7  Paragraph 8G(2)(c)

Omit “$13,127”, substitute “$13,389”.

8  Subparagraph 8G(3)(a)(ii)

Omit “$13,127”, substitute “$13,389”.

9  Application

The amendments made by this Schedule apply for the financial year commencing on 1 July 1997 and all later financial years.


  

[Minister's second reading speech

made in House of Representatives on 29 October 1997

tabled in Senate on 4 December 1997]

 

 

(201/97)