Medicare Guarantee (Treasury) Delegations 2023

I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following delegations.

Dated   23 May 2023

Dr Andrew Leigh

Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

Part 2—Delegations

5  Delegations to transfer of amounts to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account

Part 3—Revocations

6  Revocation of previous delegations

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Medicare Guarantee (Treasury) Delegations 2023.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

4  Definitions

Note: Expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017 as in force from time to time—see paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003.

 (1) In this instrument:

SES Band 2 employee means an SES employee who has been allocated an SES Band 2 classification.

the Act means the Medicare Guarantee Act 2017.

the Treasury means the Department of the Treasury.

Part 2—Delegations

5  Delegations to transfer of amounts to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account

  Under subsection 16(1) of the Act, each person holding, occupying or performing the duties of each of the following offices or positions in the Treasury, is delegated all the Treasurer’s functions and powers under section 14 of the Act:

 (a) the Secretary;

 (b) a Deputy Secretary;

 (c) an SES Band 2 employee whose responsibilities include providing advice to the Treasurer in relation to healthcare policy matters.

Part 3—Revocations

6  Revocation of previous delegations

  Under subsection 16(1) of the Act, all previous delegations of the Treasurer under the Act are revoked.