Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014

No. 78, 2014

An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedule(s) 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Part 1—Extended general safety-net amount 3

Health Insurance Act 1973 3

Part 2—Confirmation of family composition 4

Health Insurance Act 1973 4

Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014

No. 78, 2014

An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes

[Assented to 17 July 2014]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Act 2014.
2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act 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 Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provision(s) Commencement Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 17 July 2014
2. Schedule 1, Part 1 1 January 2015. 1 January 2015
3. Schedule 1, Part 2 The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 17 July 2014

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Health Insurance Act 1973

 1 Subsection 8(1A) (definition of extended general safety-net amount)

Omit “$1,000”, substitute “$2,000”.

 2 Application—medical expenses incurred on or after 1 January 2015

The amendment made by item 1 of this Schedule applies in relation to medical expenses incurred on or after 1 January 2015.

 3 Application—indexation of amount

The amount of $2,000 inserted by item 1 of this Schedule is not indexed under Health Insurance Act 1973 on 1 January 2015.section 10A of the

Health Insurance Act 1973

 4 Subsection 10AE(1)

Omit “, in writing,”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 March 2014

Senate on 24 June 2014]

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