Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 1 July 1999, clarify that accident-related services, for which payment is to be made in whole or in part under the Accident Insurance Act 1998, are excluded from the use and entitlement criteria of the 3 health entitlement cards: the community services card, the high use health card, and the pharmaceutical subsidy card. In order to clarify the ability of health professionals to request the production of health entitlement cards, amendments are made to the principal regulations which specify the rights of health professionals and others to require or request the production of health entitlement cards and prescribe the authorised and unauthorised uses of high use health cards and pharmaceutical subsidy cards. At present the principal regulations contain provisions dealing only with the use or unauthorised use of community services cards.