Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2012 No. 212

I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 30 August 2012

MARIE BASHIR

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

TANYA PLIBERSEK

Minister for Health

1 Name of regulation

  This regulation is the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  This regulation commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Regulations 1999

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Regulations 1999.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

[1] Regulation 3, notes 1 and 2

substitute

Note   Several other words and expressions used in these Regulations have the meaning given by the Act. For example:

 adequate and contemporaneous records (section 81)

 Committee (section 81)

 general medical services table (section 3)

 general practitioner (section 3)

 inappropriate practice (section 81)

 medical practitioner (section 3)

 person under review (section 81)

 practitioner (section 81)

 profession (section 81)

 referred services (section 81)

 relevant period (section 106KA)

 service (section 81).

[2] Regulation 4, note

omit

subs

insert

subsection

[3] Regulation 7

omit

Part 3

insert

Part 2

[4] Regulation 7, note

omit

[5] Regulation 11, note

omit

[6] Subregulation 12 (1)

omit

that, in the State or Territory in which the general practitioner practises his or her practice:

insert

that, for a general practitioner:

[7] Paragraph 12 (1) (a)

omit

or licensing

[8] Subregulation 12 (2)

omit

that, in the State or Territory in which the practitioner (being a practitioner other than a general practitioner) practises his or her practice or specialty:

insert

that, for a practitioner other than a general practitioner:

[9] Paragraph 12 (2) (a)

omit

or licensing

[10] Schedule 1, item 1

substitute

[11] Schedule 2

substitute

Schedule 2 Regulatory and other bodies to which non‑compliance by practitioner other than a general practitioner may be referred

(subregulation 12 (2))

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.comlaw.gov.au.