Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1)1
Select Legislative Instrument 2012 No. 212
I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Dated 30 August 2012
MARIE BASHIR
Administrator
By Her Excellency’s Command
TANYA PLIBERSEK
Minister for Health
1              Name of regulation
                This regulation is the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1).
2              Commencement
                This regulation commences on the day after it is registered.
3              Amendment of Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Regulations 1999
                Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review) Regulations 1999.
Schedule 1        Amendments
(section 3)
 
[1]           Regulation 3, notes 1 and 2
substitute
Note   Several other words and expressions used in these Regulations have the meaning given by the Act. For example:
·      adequate and contemporaneous records (section 81)
·      Committee (section 81)
·      general medical services table (section 3)
·      general practitioner (section 3)
·      inappropriate practice (section 81)
·      medical practitioner (section 3)
·      person under review (section 81)
·      practitioner (section 81)
·      profession (section 81)
·      referred services (section 81)
·      relevant period (section 106KA)
·      service (section 81).
[2]           Regulation 4, note
omit
subs
insert
subsection
[3]           Regulation 7
omit
Part 3
insert
Part 2
[4]           Regulation 7, note
omit
[5]           Regulation 11, note
omit
[6]           Subregulation 12 (1)
omit
that, in the State or Territory in which the general practitioner practises his or her practice:
insert
that, for a general practitioner:
[7]           Paragraph 12 (1) (a)
omit
or licensing
[8]           Subregulation 12 (2)
omit
that, in the State or Territory in which the practitioner (being a practitioner other than a general practitioner) practises his or her practice or specialty:
insert
that, for a practitioner other than a general practitioner:
[9]           Paragraph 12 (2) (a)
omit
or licensing
[10]         Schedule 1, item 1
substitute
1
Medical Board of Australia
[11]         Schedule 2
substitute
Schedule 2        Regulatory and other bodies to which non‑compliance by practitioner other than a general practitioner may be referred
(subregulation 12 (2))
  
Item
Body

1
Chiropractic Board of Australia

2
Dental Board of Australia

3
Department of Human Services

4
Medical Board of Australia

5
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

6
Optometry Board of Australia

7
Osteopathy Board of Australia

8
Physiotherapy Board of Australia

9
Podiatry Board of Australia

Note
1.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.comlaw.gov.au.