This instrument is the Social Security (Automatic Issue Health Care Card–Residence Requirement) Declaration 2024.

(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	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subparagraph 1061ZN(1)(a)(ii) and subsection 1061ZN(2) of the Social Security Act 1991.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

member of the family unit has the same meaning as in the Migration Act 1958.

6 Class of visas

For the purposes of subparagraph 1061ZN(1)(a)(ii) of the Act, the following class of visas is determined:

(a) Subclass 060 (Bridging F);

(b) Subclass 070 (Bridging (Removal Pending));

(d) Subclass 449 (Humanitarian Stay (Temporary));

(e) Subclass 785 (Temporary Protection);

(f) Subclass 786 (Temporary (Humanitarian Concern));

(g) Subclass 790 (Safe Haven Enterprise); and

(h) Subclass 820 (Partner).

7 Declared persons

For the purposes of subparagraph 1061ZN(1)(a)(iii) of the Act, the following persons are declared:

(a) a person who:

(i) is, or has been, in Australia as the holder of a visa granted on the basis that the person is a participant, as a worker, in the scheme known as the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme; and

(ii) has been approved by a Department, in the course of administering the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, to bring members of the family unit of the person to Australia;

(b) a person who is, or has been, in Australia as the holder of a visa granted on the basis that the person is a member of the family unit of a person referred to in paragraph (a).

Schedule 1—Repeals

Social Security (Class of Visa–Automatic Issue Health Care Card–Residence Requirement) Declaration 2018

1 The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument