Health and NDIS legislation
Health, NDIS and medicines legislation
A focused index for Australian National Health instruments, Medicare law, NDIS rules, therapeutic goods, aged care and disability measures already in Zoe.
Priority instruments
Common health and NDIS lookups
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 135 of 1992
Disability Discrimination Act 1992
The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 makes it unlawful to treat people less favourably because of disability, protecting those with past, future or imputed disabilities across everyday life (work,...
599 case citations
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 42 of 1974
Health Insurance Act 1973
The Health Insurance Act 1973 creates and governs Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance scheme. It determines who’s eligible, which health services attract government rebates, and the rules for...
255 case citations
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 95 of 1953
National Health Act 1953
The National Health Act 1953 is a foundational Australian law that lets the Commonwealth fund and arrange a wide range of health services—most notably the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, vaccine programs,...
226 case citations
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 21 of 1990
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 is the federal framework that controls the manufacture, import, export, supply and advertising of medicines, medical devices, biologicals and now vaping products....
199 case citations
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 20 of 2013
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
The National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 establishes the NDIS: a national program that gives eligible Australians with significant, permanent disability individualised, government‑funded plans for...
79 case citations
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017
This legislation sets the operational rules for Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), governing how subsidised medicines are prescribed, dispensed and priced and affecting patients, prescribers,...
2 case citations
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 76 of 2013
Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Act 2013
The Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Act 2013 is a major overhaul of the Aged Care Act 1997 that reshapes how aged care is funded, regulated and delivered. It affects older Australians, their families,...
1 case citation
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Additional Community Supply Support Payment) Determination 2024
This Determination sets which community pharmacy supplies qualify for an "Additional Community Supply Support" payment and fixes the amount: a $1.21 base per eligible supply and a $4.91 premium (total $6.12)...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Eligible Midwives) Determination 2022
This Determination requires midwives to have a Nursing and Midwifery Board endorsement for scheduled medicines to be an "eligible midwife" under the National Health Act. It replaces the 2010 Determination and...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Social Security (Requirements and Guidelines for Disability Support Pension Active Participation) Determination 2026
This instrument sets the tests and documentary proof required to show someone “actively participated in a program of support” for Disability Support Pension claims. It defines eligible (largely...
Current instruments
National Health, NDIS and therapeutic goods material
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 225 of 1992
National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992
The Act creates the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) as Australia’s peak body for health and medical research funding and ethics, setting its...
8 case citations
- CTHIn ForceActNo. 174 of 2007
National Health Security Act 2007
This law creates Australia’s national system for detecting and responding to major health threats (outbreaks, bioterrorism, overseas mass-casualty events) and for...
2 case citations
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Direction to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority on the performance of its functions under section 226 of the National Health Reform Act 2011 - No 1/2020
This Direction requires the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) to study the costs and pricing arrangements for the Nationally Funded Centres (NFC) program...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Direction to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority on the performance of its functions under section 226 of the National Health Reform Act 2011 - No. 1/2014
This Direction orders the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) to set hospital costings for a defined "refined list" of items and any additional items it deems...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Direction to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority on the performance of its functions under section 226 of the National Health Reform Act 2011 - No. 1/2016
This Direction tells the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority to advise the Commonwealth, states and territories on risk‑adjusted funding and pricing options that...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Direction to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority on the performance of its functions under section 226 of the National Health Reform Act 2011 - No. 1/2017
This Direction tells the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) to adjust how past and current non‑admitted and other activity‑based funding data are treated so...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Direction to the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority on the performance of its functions under section 226 of the National Health Reform Act 2011 - No. 2/2016
This Direction (under s.226 of the National Health Reform Act) tells the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) to implement COAG Health Council decisions on...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2017-18) Determination 2019
This Determination, made by the Treasurer under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, fixes the dollar amounts the Commonwealth will pay each State and Territory...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2018-19) Determination 2020
This determination, made by the Treasurer under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, specifies the exact Commonwealth payments to each State and Territory for the...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2019-20) Determination 2021
This determination names the exact dollar amounts the Commonwealth will pay each Australian state and territory for the 2019–20 national health reform payment year. It...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2020-21) Determination 2022
This instrument, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3), requires the Commonwealth to pay specified grant amounts to each State for the 2020–21...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2021-22) Determination 2022
Specifies the exact Commonwealth dollar amounts to be paid to each Australian state and territory for the 2021–22 payment year under the National Health Reform...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2022-23) Determination 2023
This determination, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3) by the Assistant Minister, fixes the Commonwealth payments to each State and Territory for...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2023-24) Determination 2024
This instrument fixes the Commonwealth’s dollar payments to each state and territory for the 2023–24 year under the National Health Reform Agreement. It lists eight...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2024-25) Determination 2025
This determination, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, fixes the Commonwealth grant amounts to each Australian state and territory for the 2024‑25...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments) Determination 2014-15
This Determination directs the Commonwealth to pay specific 2014–15 amounts into each State’s National Health Funding Pool account, using the Administrator’s...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments) Determination 2015-16
This Treasurer’s Determination fixes Commonwealth payments to each State and Territory under the National Health Reform arrangements for 2015–16, totalling...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments) Determination 2016-17
This Determination directs the Commonwealth to pay specified 2016–17 National Health Reform amounts into each State’s Pool Account, based on the Administrator’s...
- ACTIn ForceActNo. 2 of 2013
Health (National Health Funding Pool and Administration) Act 2013
This Act sets up an independent administrator and two ACT bank accounts — a Reserve Bank ‘state pool account’ and a state managed fund — to receive and pay out...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
Legislation (Deferral of Sunsetting—National Health (Immunisation Program—Designated Vaccines) Determination) Certificate 2024
This certificate postpones the automatic repeal (sunsetting) of the National Health (Immunisation Program—Designated Vaccines) Determination 2014 (No.1), moving its...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Application Fees for Pharmacist Approvals) Determination 2020
This instrument fixes the application fees for pharmacist approvals under the National Health Act 1953. It sets two flat fees: $1,370 where an application must be...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Australian Community Pharmacy Authority Rules) Determination 2018 (PB 46 of 2018)
This Determination sets the rules the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority must follow when recommending approval or refusal for pharmacies to open, relocate or...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Botulinum Toxin Program) Special Arrangement 2025
This instrument creates a hospital‑only supply path for specified botulinum toxin PBS items: approved hospital authorities must supply and an eligible medical...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Chairperson of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal) Appointment 2024
Judith Wright is appointed Chairperson of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal for a three‑year term beginning 29 May 2024, by the Governor‑General acting...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Chemotherapy Prescribing) Special Arrangement 2020
This Special Arrangement lets authorised prescribers use the chemotherapy medication chart as the prescription for certain Pharmaceutical Benefits given with...
- CTHIn ForceLegislative Instrument
National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co-payment Program) Special Arrangement 2026
The instrument creates the National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement from 1 April 2026 to reduce or eliminate PBS co‑payments for...