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Dental Benefits Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2022

I, Simon Cotterell, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Rules.

Dated 14 December 2022  

Simon Cotterell

First Assistant Secretary

Primary Care Division

 

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. 2) 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.  The whole of this instrument

1 January 2023.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  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)

 

Column 1

State/ internal Territory

Column 2

Date service must be provided on or before:

New South Wales

31 December 2026

Victoria

31 December 2026

Queensland

31 December 2026

Western Australia

31 December 2026

South Australia

31 December 2026

Tasmania

31 December 2026

Australian Capital Territory

31 December 2026

Northern Territory

31 December 2026