{"id":"F2016L00161","name":"Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth Application Day) Proclamation 2016","slug":"health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":438552,"registerId":"F2016L00161-fast-fetch-1775954930008","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth Application Day) Proclamation 2016","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nHealth Legislation Amendment (eHealth‑Application Day) Proclamation 2016\n\nI, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation.\n\nSigned and Sealed with the\n\nGreat Seal of Australia on\n\n 25 February 2016\n\nPeter Cosgrove\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nSussan Ley\n\nMinister for Health\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Application day\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This is the Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth-Application Day) Proclamation 2016.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 27 February 2016\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Act 2015.\n\n4  Application day\n\n  For item 111 of Schedule 1 to the Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Act 2015, 1 March 2016 is fixed as the application day.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1305},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Proclamation is a machinery instrument that gives effect to the parent Act (Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Act 2015) by fixing an application day as contemplated by that Act. It does not expand, limit, or otherwise alter the substantive scope of the legislation."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (section 4) fixing a calendar date","No defined terms or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond citation of parent Act","Extremely short length (4 sections total)","Purely machinery/technical nature"],"plain_english_summary":"This Proclamation switches on specific digital health rules by setting **1 March 2016** as the day they take legal effect.\n\nIn practical terms, this document activates **item 111 of Schedule 1** to the *Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Act 2015*—provisions dealing with Australia's electronic health record system (My Health Record). It doesn't create new rules itself; rather, it tells healthcare providers and government agencies when those already-passed rules start applying.\n\nThink of it as a formal timer that Parliament built into the original 2015 law, and this Proclamation simply sets that timer to go off on 1 March 2016."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016","history":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-ehealth-application-day-proclamation-2016/documents"}}