Health Insurance Commission Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1
Statutory Rules 2003 No. 1612
I, GUY STEPHEN MONTAGUE GREEN, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Commission Act 1973.
Dated 25 June 2003
G. S. M. GREEN
Administrator
By His Excellency’s Command
KAY PATTERSON
Minister for Health and Ageing

1	Name of Regulations
		These Regulations are the Health Insurance Commission Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1).
2	Commencement
		These Regulations commence on gazettal.
3	Amendment of Health Insurance Commission Regulations 1975
		Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance Commission Regulations 1975.

Schedule 1	Amendment
(regulation 3)
  
[1]	After regulation 3T
insert
3U	Additional functions of the Commission — diagnostic imaging services
		For subsection 8AA (2) of the Act, the following functions are prescribed:
	(a)	on behalf of the Minister, to give a direction under subsection 16D (1) of the Health Insurance Act;
	(b)	on behalf of the Minister, to carry out the functions conferred on the Minister by Division 4 of Part IIB of the Health Insurance Act in relation to the Diagnostic Imaging Register.
3V	Additional functions of the Commission — radiation oncology services
		For subsection 8AA (2) of the Act, the following functions are prescribed:
	(a)	on behalf of the Minister, to give a direction under subsection 16F (1) of the Health Insurance Act;
	(b)	on behalf of the Minister, to carry out the functions conferred on the Minister by Part IIC of the Health Insurance Act in relation to the Radiation Oncology Register.
3W	Additional functions of the Commission — remote area exemptions
		For subsection 8AA (2) of the Act, the following functions are prescribed, namely to carry out, on behalf of the Minister, the functions conferred on the Minister by Division 2 of Part IIB of the Health Insurance Act in relation to remote area exemptions.
Notes
1.	These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1975 No. 27, as amended by 1976 Nos. 21 and 146; 1982 No. 249; 1983 Nos. 88 and 152; Act No. 54, 1983; Statutory Rules 1984 No. 321; 1985 Nos. 41 and 70; 1986 No. 127; 1987 No. 165; 1989 Nos. 55, 96 and 195; 1991 No. 443; 1992 No. 241; 1993 Nos. 81, 89, 197 and 217; 1994 Nos. 102, 257, 404 and 450; 1995 Nos. 24, 286, 375 and 440; 1996 Nos. 159 and 322; 1997 Nos. 286, 332 and 396; Act No. 159, 1997; Statutory Rules 1998 Nos. 67, 103 and 124; 2001 Nos. 276 and 277; 2002 Nos. 142 and 253.
2.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 26 June 2003.