H&A Ref. no. 776

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

ORDER UNDER SUBSECTION 6(1)

I, TANYA PLIBERSEK, Minister for Health, pursuant to subsection 6(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) hereby DECLARE that:

(1) Every person who is an offshore entry person and who is the holder of a Bridging E (Class WE) visa, being a person who, but for this Order, would not be an eligible person for the purposes of the Act shall, during any period in which the person was or is in Australia on or after 25 November 2011, be treated as having been or as being an eligible person for the purposes of the Act. 

(2) In this Order the term offshore entry person has the meaning given by the Migration Act 1958, as in force from time to time. 

(3) This Order will cease at midnight on 31 December 2014. 

(4) This Order revokes the Order with H&A Ref. No. 775 made by me under subsection 6(1) of the Act on 17 April 2012.

Dated this    15th    day of   December  2012

TANYA PLIBERSEK

MINISTER FOR HEALTH