Health Insurance (Eligible persons – Persons from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories who are holders of a Bridging Visa E (Subclass 050 and Subclass 051) with work rights and their immediate family members on a Bridging Visa E) Order 2024 (Cth)

Health ref. no. 823

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

Health Insurance (Eligible persons – Persons from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories who are holders of a Bridging Visa E (Subclass 050 and Subclass 051) with work rights and their immediate family members on a Bridging Visa E) Order 2024

I, Daniel McCabe, 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 on or after 31 January 2024, be treated as having been or as being an eligible person for the purposes of the Act.

(2) This applies to:

(a) a person who is from Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories and is the holder of a Bridging Visa E (Subclass 050 and Subclass 051) with work rights; or

(b) a person who is an immediate family member of the person mentioned in paragraph 2(a) and is the holder of a Bridging Visa E (Subclass 050 and Subclass 051); or

(c) the child of a person referred to in paragraph 2(a) or 2(b) and who:

(i) was born in Australia; and

(ii) is taken to have been granted a Bridging Visa E (Subclass 050 and Subclass 051) because of section 78 of the Migration Act 1958.

(3) However, clause 2 does not apply to a person who is an unauthorised maritime arrival or who was not immigration cleared on their last entry to Australia, as those terms are defined in the Migration Act 1958.