Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2019

I, NICK HENDERSON, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following rules.

Dated 20   March 2019   

Nick Henderson

Assistant Secretary
Health Financing Group
Department of Health

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments commencing 20 March 2019 

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015

Schedule 2—Amendments commencing 1 May 2019 

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015 3

1  Name

  This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under item 3 of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments commencing 20 March 2019

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015

1  Subsection 8A(3) (paragraph (a) of the definition of patient contribution)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a) in relation to a nursing‑home type patient at a public hospital, the  following amount for the State or Territory in which the hospital is located:

 (i)           Australian Capital Territory - $60.05;

 (ii)          New South Wales - $61.30;

 (iii)         Northern Territory - $57.85;

 (iv)         Queensland - $61.30;

 (v)          South Australia - $61.30;

 (vi)         Tasmania - $61.30;

 (vii)        Victoria - $61.30; and

 (viii)       Western Australia - $61.30.

2  Subsection 8A(3) (paragraph (b) of the definition of patient contribution)

Omit “$60.65”, substitute “$61.30”. 

Schedule 2—Amendments commencing 1 May 2019

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015

1  Subsection 8A(3) (subparagraph (a)(iii) of the definition of patient contribution)

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

 (iii)         Northern Territory - $61.30;