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MEDICARE GUARANTEE ACT 2017 (NO. 71, 2017) - NOTES

 

No. 71, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2

3............ Simplified outline of this Act.............................................................. 2

4............ Definitions.......................................................................................... 3

5............ Medicare Guarantee Fund................................................................... 4

6............ Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account....................... 4

7............ Credits to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account. 4

8............ Credit to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account--budget year beginning on 1 July 2017        5

9............ Credits to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account--later budget years      5

10.......... Credits to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account--avoiding funding shortfalls       6

11.......... Purpose of the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Treasury) Special Account 7

12.......... Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account.......................... 7

13.......... Purposes of the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account. 8

14.......... Transfer of amounts to the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account     8

15.......... Surplus amounts in the Medicare Guarantee Fund (Health) Special Account--transfer to general CRF 8

16.......... Delegation by the Treasurer................................................................ 9

17.......... Delegation by the Health Minister..................................................... 10

18.......... Appropriation.................................................................................... 10

 


 

 

Medicare Guarantee Act 2017

No. 71, 2017

 

 

 

An Act to establish the Medicare Guarantee Fund, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 June 2017]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

 

[Minister's second reading speech made in--

House of Representatives on 1 June 2017

Senate on 19 June 2017]

 

(118/17)

 



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