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Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – GP and Allied Health COVID-19 Services) Amendment Determination No.1 2020

I, DAVID WEISS, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following determination.

Dated 13 March 2020

David Weiss
First Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Health Financing Group
Department of Health

Contents
1. Name
2. Commencement
3. Authority
4. Definitions
Schedule 1 – Amendments to Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – GP and Allied Health COVID-19 Services) Determination 2020

    1.      Name

     This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – GP and Allied Health COVID-19 Services) Amendment Determination No.1 2020.

    2.      Commencement

    (1) Each provision of this instrument 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
Column 1                          Column 2                                                                                                                                                       Column 3
Provisions                        Commencement                                                                                                                                                   Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument  Immediately after the registration of the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – GP and Allied Health COVID-19 Services) Determination 2020.

     Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

    3.      Authority

     This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

    4.      Definitions

    (1) In this instrument:
     Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

     Schedule means a Schedule to this instrument.

     Note: The following terms are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act:

               * clinically relevant service;

               * general medical services table;

               * item;

     (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this instrument to a provision of the Act or the National Health Act 1953 or regulations made under the Act or under the National Health Act 1953 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.

Schedule 1 – Amendments to Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – GP and Allied Health COVID-19 Services) Determination 2020

     1. Within the definition of Patient at risk of COVID-19 of section 5 Definitions
Insert after (c)(v):

            or

         (d)   the person meets the current national triage protocol criteria for suspected COVID-19 infection

2.     Omit paragraph 1.1.1 and substitute:

     1.1.1