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A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes
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Registered 22 Mar 2013
Introduced Senate 19 Mar 2013
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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                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendment

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.