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Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (No. 3) Rules 2019

I, Brian Kelleher, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following rules.

Dated 18 September 2019

Brian Kelleher

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health

 

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Schedules................................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 2

Schedule 2—Amendments 3

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015 3

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (No. 3) Rules 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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument  

20 September 2019

20 September 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

 1  Schedule 4, clause 6 (table 1, table item dealing with New South Wales)

Omit$129.30, substitute “$131.00”.

2  Schedule 4, clause 6 (table 1, table item dealing with Queensland)

Omit “$129.50”, substitute “$132.50”.

3  Schedule 4, clause 6 (table 1, table item dealing with Tasmania)

Omit “$147.10”, substitute “$148.30”.

4  Schedule 4, clause 6 (table 2)

Omit “$49.80”, substitute “$49.30”.

 

Schedule 2Amendments

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 nursinghome type patient at a public hospital, the  following amount for the State or Territory in which the hospital is located:

              (i)           Australian Capital Territory - $61.30;

              (ii)          New South Wales - $61.80;

              (iii)         Northern Territory - $61.80;

              (iv)         Queensland - $61.80;

              (v)          South Australia - $61.80;

              (vi)         Tasmania - $61.80;

              (vii)        Victoria - $61.80; and

              (viii)       Western Australia - $61.80.

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

Omit “$61.30”, substitute “$61.80”.