Schedule 5: Amendment of Laws
4. Amendment of Section2 of Medical Schemes Act, 1967

 

Section 2(1) of the Medical Schemes Act, 1967 (Act no 72 of 1967), is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (g) of the following paragraph:

    1. shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (2A) apply with reference to--

      1. a particular medical scheme established or continued in terms of a collective agreement concluded in a council in terms of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No 66 of 1995), before the Labour Relations Amendment Act, 1998, has come into operation;

      2. a particular medical scheme which was established or continued in the circumstances mentioned in subparagraph (i) and which, in terms of a collective agreement so concluded in that council after the coming into operation of the Labour Relations Amendment Act, 1998, is continued or further continued (as the case may be),

only if the Minister, at the request of the Minister of Labour and by notice in the Gazette, has declared the said provisions to be applicable with reference to such a particular medical scheme;