Health ref. no.792

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:

(i)                 is an unauthorised maritime arrival or who was not immigration cleared on their last entry to Australia; and

(ii)               who is the holder of a Humanitarian Stay (Temporary) visa (Subclass 449),

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)           In this Order the terms unauthorised maritime arrival and immigration cleared have the meanings given by the Migration Act 1958, as in force from time to time.

(c)           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