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Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment (Indexation) Regulations 2020

Authoritative Version
  • - F2020L00728
  • No longer in force
Regulations as made
These regulations amend the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2020 to increase the fees of two Medicare Benefits Schedule items (74990 and 74991) by 1.5 per cent, and make an editorial amendment to item 69319 to clarify that two tests or more under item 69494 for a detection of a virus, microbial antigen or microbial nucleic acid are required.
Administered by: Health
Registered 16 Jun 2020
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR17-Jun-2020
Tabled Senate18-Jun-2020
Date of repeal 13 Nov 2020
Repealed by Division 1 of Part 3 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003
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Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment (Indexation) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 11 June 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

 

 

 

  

  

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2020                                                2

 

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment (Indexation) Regulations 2020.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument 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 instrument

1 July 2020.

1 July 2020

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

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

Schedule 1—Amendments

  

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2020

1  Clause 2.3.4 of Schedule 1 (item 69319, column 2, paragraph (b))

Omit “2 tests”, substitute “2 or more tests”.

2  Clause 2.12.2 of Schedule 1 (item 74990, column 3)

Omit “14.10”, substitute “14.30”.

3  Clause 2.12.2 of Schedule 1 (item 74991, column 3)

Omit “21.30”, substitute “21.60”.