Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:84:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 84 (pt 10/11)
Character Range: 65999–68581

purposes of this Part, if:
 (a) paragraph (e) of the definition of concessional beneficiary applies to a person (the seniors health card holder); and
 (b) no other paragraph of the definition of concessional beneficiary applies to the seniors health card holder;
a person who, apart from this subsection, would be a dependant of the seniors health card holder is taken not to be a dependant of the seniors health card holder.
Note: A person who is the holder of a seniors health card within the meaning of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 is a person to whom paragraph (e) of the definition of concessional beneficiary applies.
 (7A) If a person (the relevant person) would have been a dependant of a concessional beneficiary at a particular time on a day except that:
 (a) the relevant person died on that day; or
 (b) the concessional beneficiary died on that day;
then, despite that death, the relevant person is taken still to be a dependant of a concessional beneficiary at that time (whether that time is before or after the time of death).
 (8) A reference in this Part to the provision to a person or body of a medicare number as a number applicable to a particular individual is a reference to:
 (a) the production to that person or body of a medicare card having on it a medicare number as a number applicable to that particular individual; or
 (b) the provision to that person or body of any other information, whether documentary or oral, that indicates a medicare number as a number applicable to that particular individual.
 (9) A reference in this Part to the provision to a person or body of the expiry date in relation to a medicare number provided as a number applicable to a particular individual is a reference to:
 (a) the production to the person or body of a medicare card that indicates the expiry date in relation to that medicare number; or
 (b) the provision to the person or body of any other information, whether documentary or oral, that indicates the expiry date in relation to that medicare number.
 (10) A reference in this Part to a medicare number, or a special number, ultimately supplied to the Chief Executive Medicare in relation to a prescription, is a reference to:
 (a) if the number is not inserted in a CTS claim relating to that prescription—the number in the form in which it appears on the prescription (or in the case of a communicated prescription, the written version of the prescription), at the time when the prescription is sent to the Chief Executive Medicare by an approved supplier with a claim for payment; or
 (b) if that