Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Duration of Attendance) Regulation 2014 (No. 2)

Select Legislative Instrument No. 214, 2014

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 23 December 2014

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2014

1  Name

  This is the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Duration of Attendance) Regulation 2014 (No. 2).

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 19 January 2015.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2014

1  Schedule 1 (item 52, column headed “Description”)

Omit “of not more than 5 minutes in duration”, substitute “lasting less than 10 minutes”.

2  Schedule 1 (item 53, column headed “Description”)

Omit “of more than 5 minutes in duration”, substitute “lasting at least 10 minutes”.

3  Schedule 1 (item 5200, column headed “Description”)

Omit “of not more than 5 minutes in duration”, substitute “lasting less than 10 minutes”.

4  Schedule 1 (item 5203, column headed “Description”)

Omit “of more than 5 minutes in duration”, substitute “lasting at least 10 minutes”.