Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 53

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 10 April 2008

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

NICOLA ROXON

Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 May 2008.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2007

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2007.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

 

[1] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 3 (1), definition of item, note

omit

Health Insurance (Allied Health and Dental Services) Determination 2007,

insert

Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2007,

[2] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 55 (2), note

substitute

Note   Asterisked items relate to a health service specified in the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2007.

[3] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 57 (2) (b)

substitute

 (b) a service that is provided to a patient who has already been provided, in the calendar year, with 12 (or, if exceptional circumstances exist, 18) other services to which any of the items in that Subgroup, or items 80000* to 80015*, 80100* to 80115*, 80125* to 80140* or 80150* to 80165*, apply.

[4] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 57 (2), at the foot

insert

Note   Asterisked items relate to a health service specified in the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2007.

[5] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 59 (2), note

substitute

Note   Asterisked items relate to a health service specified in the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2007.

[6] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 4001, note

substitute

 

Note   Asterisked items relate to a health service specified in the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2007.

 

Note

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