Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:84:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 84 (pt 9/11)
Character Range: 63757–66253

is written or communicated and before the benefit is supplied upon the prescription, a holder of a concession card or an entitlement card.
 (3) If the Minister so determines, the Minister of State of a State administering the laws of that State relating to public hospitals shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to be the governing body of the public hospitals in that State.
 (3A) A reference in this Part to the governing body, in relation to a public hospital in the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands or the Territory of Christmas Island, shall be read as a reference to the Administrator of the relevant Territory.
 (3AA) A reference in this Part to the governing body, in relation to a public hospital on Norfolk Island, is a reference to the person or body specified in the regulations.
 (3B) A reference in the definition of child in subsection (1) to a child of a member includes a reference to:
 (a) an adoptive child or a stepchild of the person; and
 (b) someone who would be the stepchild of the person except that the person is not legally married to the person's de facto partner; and
 (c) someone who is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.
 (3C) If a person would have been a concessional beneficiary at a particular time on a day except that the person died on that day then, despite that death, the person is taken still to be a concessional beneficiary at that time (whether that time is before or after the time of death).
 (4) A dependant, in relation to a person to whom paragraph (c) or (d) of the definition of concessional beneficiary applies, is a person who is an Australian resident within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1973 and:
 (a) the spouse of the person; or
 (b) a child under the age of 16 years who is in the custody, care and control of the person or the spouse of the person; or
 (c) a person who:
 (i) has attained the age of 16 years but is under the age of 25 years; and
 (ii) is receiving full time education at a school, college or university; and
 (iii) is not being paid a disability support pension under the Social Security Act 1991; and
 (iv) is wholly or substantially dependent on the person or on the spouse of the person.
 (7) For the 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