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Dental Benefits Amendment Act 2012
No. 183, 2012
An Act to amend the law relating to dental benefits, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Amendments Dental Benefits Act 2008
Dental Benefits Amendment Act 2012 No. 183, 2012
An Act to amend the law relating to dental benefits, and for related purposes
[Assented to 10 December 2012]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Dental Benefits Amendment Act 2012.
2 Commencement This Act commences on 1 January 2014.
3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Amendments
Dental Benefits Act 2008
1 Section 4 Insert: FTB(A) person has the meaning given by subsection 24(2).
2 Section 22 Omit "12", substitute "2".
3 Section 23 (heading) Repeal the heading, substitute:
23 Qualification for a voucher
4 Subsection 23(1) (heading) Repeal the heading, substitute:
Persons to whom this section applies
5 Paragraphs 23(1)(a) and (b) Omit "12 years", substitute "2 years".
6 Paragraph 24(1)(c) Omit "FTB(A) teenager", substitute "FTB(A) person".
7 Subsection 24(2) (heading) Repeal the heading, substitute:
When a person is an FTB(A) person
8 Subsection 24(2) Omit "For the purposes of this section, a person (the teenager) is an FTB(A) teenager", substitute "A person is an FTB(A) person".
9 Paragraph 24(2)(a) Omit "teenager, or the teenager's partner", substitute "person, or the person's partner".
10 Paragraph 24(2)(b) Omit "teenager" (wherever occurring), substitute "person".
11 Paragraph 24(2)(c) Omit "teenager, or the teenager's partner", substitute "person, or the person's partner".
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