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Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Amendment (Transitional Provision) Determination 2022

I, Nigel Murray, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated 23 March 2022

Nigel Murray

Assistant Secretary

Medical Benefits Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1— Amendments

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Amendment (Transitional Provision) Determination 2022.

2  Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 March 2022.

 

 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Determination 2020

  1. After Part 3

Insert:

Part 4  Transitional provisions

21.     Transitional provision for item 82115

(1)          Between 1 March 2022 and 31 August 2022, item 82115 will apply to a service provided to a patient where the participating midwife has not had at least 2 antenatal attendances with the patient in the 6 months prior to the service provided to the patient.