Simplified outline of this Part
79AB Simplified outline of this Part
The National Rural Health Commissioner’s functions are:
to provide advice to the Rural Health Minister about matters relating to health in rural, regional and remote areas; and
to undertake specified projects about those matters; and
to inquire into and report on specified aspects of those matters; and
to support the implementation of Commonwealth strategies, priorities and measures about those matters; and
to undertake research, and to collect, analyse, interpret and share information, about approaches to those matters; and
to consult with a broad range of rural, regional and remote stakeholders about those matters; and
to build and maintain effective working relationships with those stakeholders; and
to perform functions conferred on the Commissioner by a Commonwealth law about those matters.
The Commissioner must perform those functions in an independent and impartial manner.
The Rural Health Minister must cause an independent review of the operation of this Part to be conducted within 6 months of the fifth anniversary of the commencement of this Part.
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