Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 No. 42 of 1974 - SECT 4

4. (1) The regulations may provide that this Act shall have effect as if the
table were varied-

   (a)  by omitting an item or rule of interpretation from the table;

   (b)  by inserting an item or rule of interpretation in the table; or

   (c)  by substituting another amount for an amount set out in an item in the
        table.

(2) The regulations may prescribe a table of medical services in accordance
with the form of table set out in Schedule 1.

(3) On the commencement of a regulation prescribing a table of medical
services-

   (a)  the table so prescribed has effect as if it were set out in Schedule 1
in the place of the table (in this sub-section referred to as "the superseded
table") in that Schedule; and

   (b)  the superseded table or, if another table has effect, by virtue of
        this section, in the place of the superseded table, that other table
        ceases to have effect.

(4) The regulations may amend a table that has effect by virtue of paragraph
(3) (a) and, on the commencement of the amendment, the table as so amended has
effect in the place of the first-mentioned table.

(5) In this section, a reference to a table of medical services shall be read
as including a reference to rules for the interpretation of that table.

(6) Regulations under this section shall, unless sooner repealed, cease to be
in force on the day next following the fifteenth sitting day of the House of
Representatives after the expiration of a period of 12 months commencing on
the day on which the regulations are notified in the Gazette, and shall be
deemed to have been repealed on that first-mentioned day.