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Health ref. no. 824

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

Health Insurance (Eligible persons and persons in the Support for Trafficked People Program and the Forced Marriage Specialist Support Program) Order 2025

I, Nigel Murray, Assistant Secretary, MBS Policy and Specialist Programs Branch, Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division, Health Resourcing Group, delegate for the Minister for Health and Aged Care, for the purposes of subsection 6(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) hereby:

     1.           REVOKE the Health Insurance (Eligible persons and persons in the Trafficked People Program) Order 2017 (No. 803), made on 26 October 2017.

     1.           DECLARE that every person included in the specified class of persons to whom clause (3) applies, being a person who, but for this Order, would not be an eligible person for the purposes of the Act shall, during any period in which the person is in Australia, be treated as being an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.

     1.           This Order applies to any of the following:

         1.                 a person who is included in the Support for Trafficked People Program.

         2.                a person who is included in the Forced Marriage Specialist Support Program.

         3.                 a dependent of a person referred to in paragraph 3(b).

     1.           This Order commences on 2 January 2025.

Dated 18 December 2024

Nigel Murray
Assistant Secretary
MBS Policy and Specialist Programs Branch
Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division
Department of Health and Aged Care

ATTACHMENT - STATEMENT OF REASONS

Health Insurance Act 1973
Class Order under Subsection 6(1)

ORDER NO: 824

DATE OF ORDER: 18 December 2024

                            RELATED ORDERS: Individual orders: 522, 524, 528, 552, 556, 557, 563, 569, 572, 575, 578, 581, 605, 612, 613, 620, 621, 626, 627, 631, 633, 650, 654, 656, 662, 664, 672, 676, 679, 687, 688, 689, 691, 692, 693, 694, 696, 697, 699, 700, 703, 704, 706, 710, 712, 714, 716, 718, 719, 722, 723, 724, 726, 728, 729, 731, 732, 735, 736, 737, 741, 742, 744, 746, 747, 748, 750, 751, 752, 753, 754, 756, 757

                             Class orders: 759, 766, 784, 803

                            NAME OF PERSON/GROUP: Support for Trafficked People Program and Forced Marriage Specialist Support Program

REASON FOR APPROVAL:

In October 2003, the then Government announced a package of measures to combat people trafficking, including support measures for victims and survivors. The Support for Trafficked People Program (STPP) assists victims and survivors in meeting their safety, security, health and well-being needs, including access to Medicare. People on the STPP may hold any type of visa.

The Increasing Support for Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Modern Slavery Budget 2023-24 measure provides support to temporary visa holders leaving violent relationships and people who are at-risk of, or who