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2022-2023
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Health Insurance Amendment
(Prescribed Dental Patients and Other
Measures) Bill 2023
No. , 2023
(Health and Aged Care)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act
1973, and for related purposes
No. , 2023
Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental Patients and Other
Measures) Bill 2023
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Prescribed dental patients
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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Schedule 2--Use of computer programs to manage Register of
Approved Placements
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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Schedule 3--Bonded medical program
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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No. , 2023
Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental Patients and Other
Measures) Bill 2023
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act
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1973, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the
Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental
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Patients and Other Measures) Act 2023
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental Patients and Other
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedules 1
and 2
1 November 2023.
1 November
2023
3. Schedule 3
1 January 2020.
1 January 2020
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Prescribed dental patients
Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Prescribed dental patients
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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1 Subsection 3(1) (definition of accredited dental practitioner)
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Repeal the definition.
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2 Subsection 3(1) (definition of prescribed dental patient)
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Repeal the definition.
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3 Subsection 3(1) (paragraph (ba) of the definition of
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professional service)
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Repeal the paragraph.
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4 Section 3BA
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Repeal the section.
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5 Subsection 3C(8) (paragraph (c) of the definition of health
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service)
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Repeal the paragraph.
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6 Subsection 3C(8) (paragraph (d) of the definition of health
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service)
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Omit ", other than in circumstances described in paragraph (c)".
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Schedule 2
Use of computer programs to manage Register of Approved Placements
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Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental Patients and Other
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Schedule 2--Use of computer programs to
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manage Register of Approved
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Placements
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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1 After section 3GB
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Insert:
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3GC Use of computer programs to manage Register of Approved
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Placements
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(1) The Chief Executive Medicare may arrange for the use, under the
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Chief Executive Medicare's control, of computer programs for
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taking actions required by section 3GA or 3GB.
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(2) An action taken by the operation of a computer program under
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such an arrangement is taken to be an action by the Chief
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Executive Medicare.
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(3) The Chief Executive Medicare may substitute an action for an
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action the Chief Executive Medicare is taken to have made under
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subsection (2) if the Chief Executive Medicare is satisfied that the
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action taken by the operation of the computer program is incorrect.
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Bonded medical program
Schedule 3
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Schedule 3--Bonded medical program
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Health Insurance Act 1973
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1 Subsection 124ZF(1)
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Omit "3 years", substitute "156 weeks".
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2 Paragraph 124ZG(1)(e)
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Omit "as soon as practicable after the request is made", substitute "by
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the end of the period specified in the request or, if that period is
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extended under subsection (4), by the end of the extended period".
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3 At the end of section 124ZG
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Add:
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(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(e):
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(a) the request must be made in writing; and
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(b) the specified period must not end sooner than 14 days after
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the day the request is made.
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(4) The Secretary may, by written notice given to the bonded
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participant, extend the period specified in a request made as
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mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).
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4 Paragraph 124ZK(1)(b)
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Omit "(d) or".
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5 After paragraph 124ZT(3)(b)
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Insert:
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(ba) how to calculate a week for the purposes of the 156 week
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period mentioned in subsection 124ZF(1), including when a
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week commences and the hours that constitute a week of
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work;
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6 Paragraph 124ZV(2)(a)
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Omit "3 year", substitute "156 week".
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Schedule 3
Bonded medical program
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7 Paragraph 124ZV(2)(b)
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Omit "3 years", substitute "156 weeks".
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8 Paragraph 124ZV(2)(b)
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Omit "12 months", substitute "52 weeks".
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9 Paragraph 124ZW(2)(a)
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Omit "3 year", substitute "156 week".
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