National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 2921

 

National Health Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Health Act 1953.

Dated 25 October 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Staples

Minister of State for Housing and Aged Care for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Community Services

and Health

 

Commencement

1. These Regulations commence on 1 December 1989.

2. After regulation 29 of the National Health Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prescribed business—definition of “accident and sickness insurance business” in subsection 67 (4) of the Act

“29aaa. (1) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of ‘accident and sickness insurance business’ in subsection 67 (4) of the Act, business of the following kind is prescribed, namely, the business (other than excluded business) of undertaking liability, by way of insurance, to pay a lump sum, or to make periodic payments, on the happening of a personal accident, disease or sickness, where the extent of the insurer’s liability is calculated by reference to, or is in any way contingent upon, a period of time during which a person is a patient in a hospital.

“(2) In subregulation (1), ‘excluded business’ means the business referred to in subregulation (1) where liability is undertaken under a contract of insurance that:

(a) is entered into before the commencement of this regulation; and

 

(S.R. 326/89)—Cat. No. 14/16.10.1989

 

(b) includes a condition under which renewal of the contract is guaranteed.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 291 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 No. 291.

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