OFFICE
OF THE PRESIDENT
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- No. 528. 29 March 1996
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- ACT NO. 8, 1996
PARLIAMENTARY AND PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AID SCHEME AMENDMENT ACT, 1996
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- It is hereby notified that
the President has assented to the following Act, which is hereby
published for general information:
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No. 8 of
1996: Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Amendment -
Act, 1996.
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- Act No. 8, 1996
PARLIAMENTARY AND PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AID SCHEME AMENDMENT ACT, 1996
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GENERAL
EXPLANATORY NOTE:
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- ** ** Words between
asterisks indicate omissions from existing enactments.
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- << >> Words
between pointed brackets indicate insertions in existing
enactments.
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ACT
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- To amend the
Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Act, 1975, so as to
delete or substitute certain obsolete expressions;
and to extend
the compulsory membership of the Parmed Medical Aid Scheme; and to
provide for matters connected therewith.
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- (Afrikaans text
signed by the President.) (Assented to 25 March 1996.)
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- BE IT ENACTED by the
Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-
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- Substitution of section 1
of Act 28 of 1975, as substituted by section I of Act 61 of 1976
and amended by section 1 of Act 107
of 1984 and section 1 of Act 21
of 1987
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- 1. The following section
is hereby substituted for section 1 of the
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Parliamentary and Provincial
Medical Aid Scheme Act, 1975:
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- "Compulsory
membership of Parmed Medical Aid Scheme of certain persons
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1.
Every person who is or becomes
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- (a) while not being a
member of either the **House of**
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<<National>>
Assembly or the **House of Representatives or the House of
Delegates** <<Senate, an Executive
Deputy President or>>
a Minister **or Deputy Minister**;
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- (b) **an Administrator
of a province** <<a judge of the
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Constitutional Court;>>
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- (c) a judge of the
Supreme Court of South Africa in a permanent capacity;
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- (d) a member of the
**House of** <<National>> Assembly <<or>>
of the **House of Representatives, of
the House of Delegates or of
the President's Council or of a provincial council** <<Senate>>;
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(e) **while not being a
member of a provincial council, a member of the executive
committee of a province** <<a member
of a provincial
legislature in a case where the provincial legislature concerned
has resolved that this Act shall apply to
its members>>;
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- (f) any other
office-bearer in the service of the Republic approved by the
**State** President for the purposes of this Act
and made known by
**him by notice** <<proclamation>> in the Gazette,
shall, for as long as he or she holds that
office or
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post, be a member of the
Parmed Medical Aid Scheme, subject to the rules of that medical
aid scheme as registered in accordance
with the provisions of the
Medical Schemes Act, 1967 (Act No. 72 of
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1967): Provided that if any
person and his or her spouse both qualify for compulsory
membership of the said Scheme in terms
of this section, only one
of them shall be obliged to be such a member.".
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- Short title
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- 2. This Act shall be
called the Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid
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Scheme Amendment Act, 1996.
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