Health Insurance (Eligible persons – Participants in the family accompaniment pilot under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme) Order 2024 (Cth)

Health ref. no.822

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

Health Insurance (Eligible persons – Participants in the family accompaniment pilot under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme) Order 2024

I, Louise Riley, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division, Health Resourcing Group, delegate for the Minister for Health and Aged Care, for the purposes of subsection 6(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) hereby DECLARE that:

(1) Every person included in the specified class of persons to whom clause 2 applies, being a person who, but for this Order, would not be an eligible person for the purposes of the Act shall, during any period in which the person is in Australia, be treated as being an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.

(2) This applies to:

(a) a person who is the holder of a Subclass 403 Temporary Work (International Relations) visa (in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility stream or Pacific Labour Scheme stream) and:

(i) the person is participating in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme family accompaniment pilot to bring members of the family unit (within the meaning of subsection 5(1) of the Migration Act 1958) of the person to Australia; and

(ii) a member of the person's family unit has entered Australia and is, or has been, residing temporarily in Australia.

(b) a person who is in Australia as the holder of a Subclass 403 Temporary Work (International Relations) visa granted on the basis that the person is a member of the family unit of the worker referred to in subparagraph (a)(i).

(c) the child of the worker referred to in subparagraph (a)(i) or member of the family unit referred to in paragraph (b) and who: