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HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (NO. 2) 1998 No. 37, 1998 - SCHEDULE 8

-- Medical insurance for visitors to Australia

Health Insurance Act 1973

1 Subsection 126(6)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(6) This section does not apply in relation to a contract of insurance in so far as it contains a provision making a person liable to make a payment if an eligible visitor incurs a liability of a kind referred to in subsection (1).

(7) In this section:

eligible visitor means a person who is to be treated as an eligible person for the purposes of this Act during his or her stay in Australia solely because he or she is a person to whom an agreement under subsection 7(1) relates.

insurance means insurance within the meaning of paragraph 51(xiv) of the Constitution.


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