H&A Ref No. 777

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

ORDER UNDER SUBSECTION 6(1)

I, MEGAN KEANEY, Delegate of the 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 unauthorised maritime arrival 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 an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.
 

(2)               In this Order the term unauthorised maritime arrival has the meaning given by the Migration Act 1958, as in force from time to time.
 

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

(4)               This Order revokes the Order with H&A Ref No. 776 made by the Minister for Health under subsection 6(1) of the Act on 15 December 2012.

(5)               This Order, H&A Ref No. 777, commences immediately following the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Matters) Act 2013.

Dated this   27th  day of    May  2013

MEGAN KEANEY

DELEGATE OF THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH