2010‑2011‑2012‑2013
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Funding for Certain Types of Abortion) Bill 2013
No. , 2013
(Senator Madigan)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendment 3
Health Insurance Act 1973 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Funding for Certain Types of Abortion) Act 2013.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendment
Health Insurance Act 1973
1 After section 17
Insert:
17A Medicare benefits not payable in respect of certain types of medically induced terminations
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, or of any regulation made pursuant to this Act, a medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service if:
(a) the professional service involves a medical practitioner performing:
(i) a medically induced termination on a pregnant woman; or
(ii) a service that relates to or is connected with performing a medically induced termination on a pregnant woman; and
(b) the termination is carried out solely because of the gender of the foetus.