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This instrument is a direction from the delegate of the Treasurer to transfer an amount from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account to secure funding for Medicare.
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Registered 01 Apr 2022

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Medicare Guarantee (Transfers to the Health Special Account) Direction (No. 1) 2022

I, Lisa Elliston, First Assistant Secretary, Social Policy Division, Fiscal Group, Department of the Treasury, delegate of the Treasurer, make the following direction.

Dated               1 April 2022

 

Lisa Elliston

First Assistant Secretary
Social Policy Division
Department of the Treasury

 

  

  

  


Contents

Part 1—Preliminary                                                                                                      1

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

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

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

4  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 2

Part 2—Transfer of amounts to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account      3

5  Direction to transfer amount from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account – 1st direction....................................................................... 3

6  Direction to transfer amount from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account – 2nd direction...................................................................... 3

 


Part 1Preliminary

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Medicare Guarantee (Transfers to the Health Special Account) Direction (No. 1) 2022.

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.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

Immediately after this instrument is registered.

 

2.  Section 5

The later of:

(a) immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 1; and

(b) immediately after the crediting referred to in section 5 of the Medicare Guarantee (2021‑22 Credits to the Special Account No. 2) Determination 2022 has occurred.

 

3.  Section 6

The later of:

(a) immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 1; and

(b) immediately after the crediting referred to in section 5 of the Medicare Guarantee (2022-23 Credits to the Special Account No. 1) Determination 2022 has occurred.

 

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 Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

4  Definitions

Note:       Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017 as in force from time to time.

                   In this instrument:

the Act means the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

Part 2Transfer of amounts to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account

5  Direction to transfer amount from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account – 1st direction

                   Under section 14 of the Act, an amount of $2,349,676,000 is directed to be debited from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account and the same amount is directed to be credited to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account on the day this section commences.

Note:          The Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account is the special account established by section 6 of the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

Note:          The Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account is the special account established by section 12 of the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

6  Direction to transfer amount from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account – 2nd direction

                   Under section 14 of the Act, an amount of $46,467,038,000 is directed to be debited from the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account and the same amount is directed to be credited to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account on the day this section commences.