Australian Government
Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
Repatriation Private Patient Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Removal of Arrangements for Local Medical Officers) Instrument 2007
 
Instrument No. R9/2007
I, Bruce Billson, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, pursuant to subsection 17(6) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006, approve this instrument made by the Repatriation Commission.
 
 
................................Bruce Billson.........................................................................
Dated this    31st   day of                   May   2007
 
The Repatriation Commission, pursuant to subsection 17(5) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006, varies the Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006, in accordance with the schedule.
Dated this    13th   day of                   April  2007
 
 
 
 
 
[signed]……………………………[signed]……………………………[signed]………………………..
MARK SULLIVAN           ED KILLESTEYN                    BILL ROLFE
PRESIDENT                       DEPUTY PRESIDENT            COMMISSIONER
 
 
 
 
 
1.  Name of Instrument
 
This Instrument is the Repatriation Private Patient Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Removal of Arrangements for Local Medical Officers) Instrument 2007.
 
2.  Commencement
 
This Instrument commences when it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
 
3. Definitions
 
          For the purposes of this instrument other than the Schedule:
 
Department means the Department of State known as the Department of Veterans’ Affairs;
 
Local Medical Officer means a medical practitioner who is registered under the Notes for Local Medical Officers;
 
Notes for Local Medical Officers means the document of that name approved by the Repatriation Commission or the Department and in force on
1 May 2007;
 
Repatriation Commission means the body corporate continued in existence under section 179 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986;
 
Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 means the legislative instrument of that name made by the Repatriation Commission under section 17 of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006.
 
Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 is the legislative instrument of that name made by the Repatriation Commission under section 16 of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006.
 
4.    Application
 
The variations made by this instrument to the Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 do not apply to a Local Medical Officer who has a current arrangement with the Repatriation Commission or the Department in respect of the provision of treatment to persons entitled to treatment under the Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 — being an arrangement entered into before the commencement of this instrument.
 
Note: the intention is that until any arrangement between a Local Medical Officer and the Repatriation Commission or the Department expires or is terminated, the provision of treatment under that arrangement is governed by the Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 as if those Principles had not been amended by this instrument but when the arrangement ends, the Repatriation Private Patient Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 apply as amended by this instrument.
 
 
 
Schedule
 
5.      Paragraph 1.2 (definition of “Local Medical Officer”)
 
omit, substitute:
Local Medical Officer means a medical practitioner who:
 
(a)        is registered under the Notes for Local Medical officers as a Local Medical Officer and who treats an entitled person in accordance with the terms, and subject to the conditions, in the Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 and in the “Notes for Local Medical Officers”; and
 
            (b)       has been given a provider number by Medicare Australia, in respect of being a medical practitioner, that has not been suspended or revoked.
 
            after the definition of Local Medical Officer (as substituted), insert:
 
medical practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners but does not include a person so registered or licensed:
 
(a)  whose registration, or licence to practise, as a medical practitioner in any State or Territory has been suspended, or cancelled, following an inquiry relating to his or her conduct; and
(b)  who has not, after that suspension or cancellation, again been authorised to register or practise as a medical practitioner in that State or Territory.
 
Notes for Local Medical Officers has the same meaning it has in the Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006.