Federal Register of Legislation
Health ref. no. 824
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973
Health Insurance (Eligible persons and persons in the Support for Trafficked People Program and the Forced Marriage Specialist Support Program) Order 2025
I, Nigel Murray, Assistant Secretary, MBS Policy and Specialist Programs Branch, 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:
1. REVOKE the Health Insurance (Eligible persons and persons in the Trafficked People Program) Order 2017 (No. 803), made on 26 October 2017.
1. DECLARE that every person included in the specified class of persons to whom clause (3) 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.
1. This Order applies to any of the following:
1. a person who is included in the Support for Trafficked People Program.
2. a person who is included in the Forced Marriage Specialist Support Program.
3. a dependent of a person referred to in paragraph 3(b).
1. This Order commences on 2 January 2025.
Dated 18 December 2024
Nigel Murray Assistant Secretary MBS Policy and Specialist Programs Branch Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division Department of Health and Aged Care
ATTACHMENT - STATEMENT OF REASONS
Health Insurance Act 1973 Class Order under Subsection 6(1)
ORDER NO: 824
DATE OF ORDER: 18 December 2024
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