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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1992 NO. 136

STATUTORY RULES 1992 No. 136

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services

National Health Act 1953

National Health Regulations (Amendment)

Section 140 of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Subsection 67(4) of the Act provides a definition of "health insurance business", to which there are a number of exclusions culminating in paragraph (e) which excludes from the definition "business of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph".

Regulation 48 of the National Health Regulations (the Regulations) prescribes the business to be excluded from the definition of "health insurance business".

Regulation 4 amended Regulation 48, correcting an anomaly in the existing subparagraph 48(1)(a)(ii) of the Regulations to ensure that the exception to "health insurance business", provided for in the Regulations, covers persons, including corporations, who enter into contracts of insurance on behalf of another person, such as an employee of the corporation, in relation to a period of temporary employment for the employee outside Australia

Regulation 2 omitted the existing Regulation 3E and regulation 3 substituted for Regulation 3E a similar Regulation 4B - this was a technical correction only.

Regulations 5 and 6 amended Schedules 3 and 4 to the Regulations as a consequence of the amendment in regulation 3.