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Health Insurance (Pathology Services) Amendment Act 1991

No. 57 of 1991

    An Act to amend certain provisions of the Health Insurance Act 1973 relating to pathology services, and for related purposes

[Assented to 24 April 1991]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance (Pathology Services) Amendment Act 1991.

(2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Health Insurance Act 19731.

Commencement

2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Each of the provisions of subsections 4 (1) and 5 (1) is taken to have commenced on the day, or at the time, shown by the note in italics at the foot of that provision.

Interpretation

  3. Unless the contrary intention appears, a word or expression:

  (a)     defined in the Principal Act for the purposes of that Act; and

  (b)     used in this Act;

has in this Act the same meaning as it has in the Principal Act.