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Health Insurance Amendment (Rural and Remote Area Medical Practitioners) Act 2000
No. 139, 2000
Health Insurance Amendment (Rural and Remote Area Medical Practitioners) Act 2000
No. 139, 2000
An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s)..................................
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973
Health Insurance Amendment (Rural and Remote Area Medical Practitioners) Act 2000
No. 139, 2000
An Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1973, and for related purposes
[Assented to 24 November 2000]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (Rural and Remote Area Medical Practitioners) Act 2000.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973
1 After section 19AB Insert:
19ABA Medicare benefits not payable in respect of services rendered by doctors who breach certain contracts with the Commonwealth
(1) Despite section 19AA, a medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service rendered by, or on behalf of, a medical practitioner who has breached a contract with the Commonwealth under which the practitioner agreed to work in a rural or remote area.
(2) The period during which medicare benefits are not payable under subsection (1) is a period equal to twice the length of the period that the practitioner agreed, under the contract, to work in the rural or remote area or such shorter period as is determined in, or in accordance with, the contract.
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