Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00070:clause:1_12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00070
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 12
Character Range: 23045–25073

12  Application and saving provisions
(1) Subsection 19(6) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as amended by this Schedule, applies in relation to a professional service rendered on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(2) Subsection 20A(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as amended by this Schedule, applies in relation to an agreement entered into under that subsection on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(3) Subitem (4) applies if:
 (a) before the commencement of this Schedule, an eligible person made an offer under subsection 20A(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 to enter into an agreement under subsection 20A(1) with respect to the medicare benefit payable in respect of a pathology service; and
 (b) on the commencement of this Schedule, the pathology service had not yet been rendered.
(4) For the purposes of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as amended by this Schedule, on and after the commencement of this Schedule, treat the offer as an offer to enter into an agreement under subsection 20A(1) of the Act, as amended by this Schedule.
(5) Subsections 20A(2) and (2A), and section 20AAA, of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as amended or inserted by this Schedule, apply in relation to a professional service rendered on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(6) Section 20B of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as amended by this Schedule, applies in relation to a professional service rendered on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(7) Subsection 127(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as amended by this Schedule, applies in relation to an agreement entered into under subsection 20A(1) of that Act, as amended by this Schedule, on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(8) Section 127A of the Health Insurance Act 1973, as inserted by this Schedule, applies in relation to a professional service rendered on or after the commencement of this Schedule.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 29 May 2024
Senate on 24 June 2024]

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