Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00458:clause:2_37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00458
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 37
Character Range: 919838–921463

37  Health care cards, other than automatic issue health care cards
 (1) If:
 (a) a person makes a claim for a health care card under Subdivision B of Division 3 of Part 2A.1 of the 1991 Act; and
 (b) within the claim period, a professional service has been rendered to, or hospital treatment has been provided for, the person or a dependant of the person; and
 (c) when the service was rendered or the treatment provided, as the case may be, the person was qualified for the card; and
 (d) the person remained so qualified until the claim was made;
the person's start day in relation to the health care card is:
 (e) the day on which the professional service was rendered or the hospital treatment was provided, as the case may be; or
 (f) if there were 2 or more such days within the claim period, the earlier or earliest of those days, as the case may be.
 (2) For the purposes of subclause (1), any period earlier than 1 September 1981 that would, but for this subclause, be included in the claim period in respect of a particular claim is to be disregarded.
 (3) In this clause:
claim period means:
 (a) the period of 13 weeks ending on the day on which a claim is made; or
 (b) such longer period as the Secretary, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, approves.
dependant has the same meaning as in Part 2A.1 of the 1991 Act.
hospital treatment has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.
professional service has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.
 (4) The Secretary must not approve, under subclause (3), a period that includes a period earlier than 1 September 1981.