Dental Benefits Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019

I, ALISON MOREHEAD, a delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following rules under subsection 60(1) of the Dental Benefits Act 2008.

Dated:  27 March 2019

ALISON MOREHEAD

First Assistant Secretary

Health Systems Policy and Primary Care Group

Department of Health

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Dental Benefits Rules 2014

1  Name

  This instrument is the Dental Benefits Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 60(1) of the Dental Benefits Act 2008.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Dental Benefits Rules 2014

1  Rule 4 (definition of provider number)

Omit “Health Insurance Regulations 1975”, substitute “Health Insurance Regulations 2018”.

2  Schedule 2

Repeal Schedule 2, substitute:

Schedule 2     Eligibility of dental services rendered in a State or internal Territory by or on behalf of or under an arrangement with a State or internal Territory

(rule 8A)