Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 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 is the Health Insurance Amendment (Administrative Actions) Act 2022.
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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | 1 July 2022. | 1 July 2022 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 After section 3GB
Insert:
3GC Use of computer programs to manage Register of Approved Placements
(1) The Chief Executive Medicare may arrange for the use, under the Chief Executive Medicare’s control, of computer programs for taking actions required by section 3GA or 3GB.
(2) An action taken by the operation of a computer program under such an arrangement is taken to be an action by the Chief Executive Medicare.
(3) The Chief Executive Medicare may substitute an action for an action the Chief Executive Medicare is taken to have made under subsection (2) if the Chief Executive Medicare is satisfied that the action taken by the operation of the computer program is incorrect.