Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated          23 January 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Levy amount imposed for ongoing listing of listed items

6 Exemptions from levy

1  Name

  This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Regulations 2025.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Act 2007.

4  Definitions

Note: The expression human tissue product, used in this instrument, is defined in the Act.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Act 2007.

5  Levy amount imposed for ongoing listing of listed items

  For the purposes of subsection 4(3) of the Act, the amount of the levy for the financial year starting on 1 July 2024 is $150.

6  Exemptions from levy

  For the purposes of subsection 5(5) of the Act, human tissue products are exempt from levy.