Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2024

I, Brian Kelleher, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Rules.

Dated   1 October 2024    

Brian Kelleher

Assistant Secretary

Private Hospital Branch

Health Systems Strategy Division
Health Systems, First Nations and Sport Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments—Nursing-home type patient minimum accommodation benefit

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

1  Name

  This instrument is the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1.     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 333-20(1) 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Nursing-home type patient minimum accommodation benefit

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

1  Clause 6 of Schedule 4 (Table 1, table item dealing with Northern Territory, column headed “Minimum benefit per night”)

Omit “$147.19”, substitute “$155.59”.