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  • Hearing Services and AGHS Reform Act 1997 (82 of 1997)

  • Front Matter
  • Part 1 Preliminary
  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Commencement
  • Part 2 Transitional provisions relating to the corporatisation of the Australian Government Health Service (AGHS)
  • Division 1 Introduction
  • 3 Simplified outline
  • 4 Definitions
  • 5 Nominated company
  • 6 Commonwealth-owned company
  • 7 Crown to be bound
  • 8 External Territories
  • 9 Extra-territorial operation
  • Division 2 Transfers from the Commonwealth to the nominated company
  • 10 Transfer of assets
  • 11 Transfer of contractual rights and obligations
  • 12 Transfer of liabilities
  • 13 Transfers of land may be registered
  • 14 This Division does not modify registers kept by land registration officials
  • 15 Transfer of pending proceedings
  • 16 Transfer of records
  • Division 3 Transfer of certain amounts to the nominated company
  • 17 Transfer time
  • 18 Transfer of Trust Account balance to nominated company
  • 19 Transfer of Reserve balance to nominated company
  • Division 4 Exemption of nominated company from State and Territory taxes
  • 20 Exemption of nominated company from State and Territory taxes
  • Division 5 Miscellaneous
  • 21 Nominated company not to be an agency of the Commonwealth etc.
  • 22 Compensation - constitutional safety-net
  • Part 3 Amendments
  • 23 Schedule(s)
  • Schedule 1 Amendment of the Hearing Services Act 1991
  • Part 1 Amendments commencing on Royal Assent
  • 1 Paragraph 5(1)(a)
  • 2 Paragraph 5(1)(ab)
  • 3 Paragraph 5(1)(b)
  • 4 Paragraph 5(1)(e)
  • 5 Paragraph 5(1)(e)
  • Part 2 Amendments commencing on 1 July 1997
  • 6 Section 1
  • 7 Section 3
  • 8 Subsection 4(1) (definition of appointed member )
  • 9 Subsection 4(1)
  • 10 Subsection 4(1) (definition of eligible person )
  • 11 Subsection 4(1) (definition of General Manager )
  • 12 Subsection 4(1) (definition of hearing products )
  • 13 Subsection 4(1) (definition of hearing services )
  • 14 Subsection 4(1)
  • 15 Subsection 4(1) (definition of member )
  • 16 Subsection 4(1) (paragraph (a) of the definition of reviewable decision )
  • 17 At the end of subsection 4(1) (paragraph (b) of the definition of reviewable decision )
  • 18 Subsection 4(1) (definition of special purpose member )
  • 19 Subsection 4(1)
  • 20 Subsection 4(3)
  • 21 Section 5
  • 22 Paragraph 8(1)(a)
  • 23 Paragraph 8(1)(c)
  • 24 Paragraph 8(1)(d)
  • 25 Paragraph 8(1)(g)
  • 26 Paragraph 8(1)(i)
  • 27 At the end of section 8
  • 28 After paragraph 9(a)
  • 29 After section 9
  • 30 Section 11
  • 31 Paragraph 15(1)(b)
  • 32 Subsection 16(1)
  • 33 Subsection 16(2)
  • 34 Subsection 16(3)
  • 35 After section 16
  • 36 Paragraph 17(3)(b)
  • 37 Subsection 18(2)
  • 38 Section 19
  • 39 Paragraph 20(a)
  • 40 Paragraph 20(b)
  • 41 Section 21
  • 42 Section 22
  • 43 Subsection 22(3)
  • 44 Section 24
  • 45 Subsection 24(1)
  • 46 Division 3 of Part 3 (heading)
  • 47 Section 25
  • 48 Section 26
  • 49 Subsection 27(1)
  • 50 Subsection 27(2)
  • 51 Subsection 28(2)
  • 52 Section 29
  • 53 Section 30
  • 54 Section 30
  • 55 Section 31
  • 56 Subsection 31(2)
  • 57 At the end of section 31
  • 58 Section 32
  • 59 Subsection 34(1)
  • 60 Subsection 34(2)
  • 61 Part 5 (heading)
  • 62 Section 41
  • 63 Section 42
  • 64 Section 43
  • 65 Section 44
  • 66 Section 45
  • 67 Section 46
  • 68 Subsection 46(2)
  • 69 At the end of section 46
  • 70 Section 47
  • 71 Section 48
  • 72 Subsections 49(1) and (2)
  • 73 Subsection 49(3)
  • 74 Subsection 51(1)
  • 75 At the end of section 51
  • 76 Subsection 53(3)
  • 77 Paragraph 62(1)(a)
  • 78 After subsection 62(1)
  • 79 After section 63
  • 80 Subsection 64(1)
  • 81 Section 65
  • 82 Section 67
  • 83 Section 67
  • 84 At the end of subsection 67(2)
  • 85 Subsection 67(5)
  • 86 After subsection 67(8)
  • 87 Subsections 67(9) and (10)
  • 88 Paragraph 69(c)
  • 89 Section 70
  • 90 Paragraph 77(2)(a)
  • 91 Paragraph 77(2)(a)
  • 92 Transitional - Authority may continue to provide hearing services to eligible persons for up to 6 months
  • 93 Transitional - amendment of section 24 of the 12
  • 94 Transitional - transfer of certain Authority liabilities to the Commonwealth
  • Schedule 2 Amendment of the Social Security Act 1991
  • Social Security Act 1991
  • 1 Section 1061ZB (note 2)
  • Schedule 3 Amendment of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
  • Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
  • 1 Section 118W (note 2)
  • Schedule 4 Amendment of the Privacy Act 1988
  • Privacy Act 1988
  • 1 Subsection 6(1)
  • 2 Subsection 6(1) (at the end of paragraph (i) of the definition of agency )
  • 3 Subsection 6(1) (paragraph (b) of the definition of eligible employment services provider )
  • 4 Subsection 6(1)
  • 5 Subsection 6(1)
  • 6 Paragraph 7(1)(a)
  • 7 After paragraph 7(1)(cb)
  • 8 Paragraphs 7(1)(d) and (e)
  • 9 At the end of paragraph 7(1)(eb)
  • 10 Section 37 (at the end of the table)
  • 11 Subsections 54(2) and 57(2)
  • 12 Transitional regulations

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