Health ref. no.781

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

ORDER UNDER SUBSECTION 6(1)

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

(a)    Every person included in the specified class of persons:

Australian citizens who have been absent from Australia for a period of no longer than five (5) years from the date of last departure, at which time such person was an Australian resident as defined in the Act,

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 is in Australia, be treated as being an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.

(b)    This Order shall have effect from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017 inclusive.

Dated this    15th day of December 2014.

PETER DUTTON

MINISTER FOR HEALTH