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HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1999 (NO. 2) 1999 NO. 88

STATUTORY RULE 1999 NO. 88

Issued by authority of the Minister for Health and Aged Care

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 2)

Section 133 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations to prescribe matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed.

Part IVA of the Act provides for the establishment and maintenance of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (the Register), and specifies the functions and powers of the Health Insurance Commission (the Commission) in relation to the Register.

Section 46B of the Act prescribes the Commission's functions in relation to the Register, including the recording in the Register of all immunisation encounters that are notified to the Commission by recognised providers or prescribed bodies.

Subsection 46E(1) of the Act provides that, for the purpose of performing its functions in relation to the Register, the Managing Director of the Commission may give information about the immunisation of children to prescribed bodies.

The purpose of the amendment to the Regulations is to update existing Schedule I A of the Regulations to include a new prescribed body to whom information in the Register may be given and to amend existing prescribed bodies to reflect their change in name.

Schedule 1 of the Regulations amends Schedule 1A of the Principal Regulations to include the Bundaberg and District Division of General Practice Association Incorporated as a prescribed body and substitutes three existing prescribed bodies to reflect their change in name.

The Regulations commenced on Gazettal.