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2008-2009

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009

(Amendment to be moved by the Leader of the Family First Party, Senator Fielding in committee of the whole)

(1)     Schedule 1, item 2, page 8 (lines 13 to 15), omit subsection 129AAG(7), substitute:

             (7)  Where a document has been produced to an employee of Medicare Australia who is a medical practitioner, this section does not authorise an employee who is not a medical practitioner to exercise powers under subsection (2) in relation to the document.

 [medical practitioners to exercise powers over certain documents]