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HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1999 (NO. 5) 1999 NO. 254

STATUTORY RULES 1999 NO. 254

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Health and Aged Care

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 5)

Section 133 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Subsection 3D(1) of the Act allows for a practitioner, who is a fellow of an organisation and who holds a qualification specified in Schedule 4 of the Health Insurance Regulations 1975, to be recognised as a specialist in a particular specialty. Regulation 4 of the Health Insurance Regulations 1975 prescribes Schedule 4 of the Regulations as declaring such professional organisations and the particular specialty and qualification in relation to each professional organisation.

The Regulations include the specialty of Public Health Medicine under Schedule 4 of the Health Insurance Regulations for the purposes of subsection 3D(1) of the Act. The recognised specialty is prescribed as a Fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (Public Health Medicine).

Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 5).

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on 1 November 1999

Regulation 3 provides for amendments to the Regulations as set out in Schedule 1.

Item 1 of Schedule 1 prescribes an organisation and qualification for the new specialty of Public Health Medicine.