✨ Health Entitlement Notice
23 MARCH 2005
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 55
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applies, the date of the Eligible Person’s eighteenth birthday if that is earlier than the third anniversary, is the Child Entitlement Period, and payments will only be made during the Child Entitlement Period in respect of Services provided to an Eligible Person during the Child Entitlement Period.
D8.2
At the end of the Child Entitlement Period, the Entitlement Balance will be cancelled.
D9
Transitional Entitlement
D9.1
This clause D9 applies to the following Eligible Persons who claimed benefits under the former wigs and hairpiece benefit scheme operated by the Ministry ("the Former Scheme") immediately prior to 31 March 2005:
(a) Eligible Persons who have since 31 March 1996 claimed a benefit for permanent hair loss;
(b) Eligible Persons who have since 31 March 2004 claimed a benefit for temporary hair loss;
(c) Eligible Persons who have since 31 March 2002 claimed a child benefit and are under 18 on 31 March 2005;
(d) Eligible Persons who have since 31 March 2002 claimed a benefit for the reasons specified in clause D5.2.
D9.2
The Ministry will open Entitlement Accounts for the Eligible Persons referred to in clause D9.1 (and the requirements of clause D2.1 will not apply).
D9.3
The Ministry will credit the Entitlement Account of each Eligible Person referred to in clause D9.1 with the relevant amount under clause D3, D4 or D5, as the case may be, less the amount of any payments made for services provided:
(a) to an Eligible Person referred to in clause D9.1(a), since the date of the first claim by that Eligible Person or, if that date was before 31 March 1996, the most recent anniversary of that date which is a multiple of nine;
(b) to an Eligible Person referred to in clause D9.1(b), since the date of the first claim by that Eligible Person after 31 March 2004;
(c) to an Eligible Person referred to in clause D9.1(c), since the date of the first claim by that Eligible Person or, if that date was before 31 March 2002, the most recent anniversary of that date which is a multiple of three; or
(d) to an Eligible Person referred to in clause D9.1(d), since the date of the first claim by that Eligible Person after 31 March 2002.
D9.4
For the purposes of clauses D6 to D8, the first Entitlement Period under this Notice of an Eligible Person referred to in clause D9.1 is deemed to commence on the date determined under clause D9.3 in relation to that Eligible Person.
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Child Entitlement Period
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🏥 Health & Social WelfareHealth Services, Child Entitlement, Entitlement Period, Payments
🏥 Transitional Entitlement
🏥 Health & Social WelfareHealth Services, Transitional Entitlement, Wigs and Hairpiece Benefit Scheme, Entitlement Accounts