Health Insurance (Bonded Medical Program) Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Rule 2025

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following rule.

Dated  22 February 2025  

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (Bonded Medical Program) Rule 2020

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Bonded Medical Program) Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Rule 2025.

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Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

(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 124ZT(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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Bonded Medical Program) Rule 2020

1  Subsection 8(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

1.     For the purposes of paragraph 124ZT(3)(d) of the Act, the circumstances in which work will qualify for completing a return of service obligation are that the work is eligible work.

2  Subsection 8(2)

Repeal the subsection.