Selim v Lele [2006] FCA 126

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Selim v Lele [2006] FCA 126

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – powers of Commonwealth Parliament – power to make laws with respect to the provision of medical and dental services (but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription) – power to make laws with respect to matters incidental to the provision of medical and dental services – meaning of 'civil conscription', 'inappropriate practice' – Constitution s 51 (xxiiiA), (xxxix) – Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth) Part VAA ss 82, 86 and 106U – constitutional validity – law imposing standards on provision of medical services incidental to Commonwealth power to provide medical services – law imposing standards upon provision of medical services not civil conscription WORDS AND PHRASES – 'civil conscription', 'inappropriate practice' The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia s 51(xxiiiA), (xxxix) Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth) ss 80, 81, 82, 86, 87, 88, 93, 106H, 106U, Part VAA

Yung v Adams (1997) 80 FCR 453 referred to Attorney-General for Victoria v The Commonwealth (1935) 52 CLR 533 cited Attorney-General for Victoria v The Commonwealth (1945) 71 CLR 237 cited Federal Council of the British Medical Association in Australia v Commonwealth (1949) 79 CLR 201 distinguished Holland v Jones (1917) 23 CLR 149 cited The General Practitioners Society in Australia v The Commonwealth of Australia (1980) 145 CLR 532 applied D Mendelson, "Devaluation of a Constitutional Guarantee: The History of Section 51(xxiiiA) of the Commonwealth Constitution" (1999) 23 MULR 308 ASHRAf THABIT SELIM v VINAYAK (VINOO) LELE, PATRICK TAN AND DAVID RIVETT AND THE DETERMINING AUTHORITY AND HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSION AND ALAN JOHN HOLMES N1723 OF 2003 STONE J 23 FEBRUARY 2006 SYDNEY

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY N 1723 OF 2003