Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2010 (No. 6) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2010 (No. 6)

I, PENNY SHAKESPEARE, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make these Rules under item 3A of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

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Penny Shakespeare

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health and Ageing

17 September 2010

Contents

PART 1       PRELIMINARY

1            Name of Rules

2.           Commencement

3.           Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements)Rules 2010               

SCHEDULE―AMENDMENTS

Part 1        Preliminary

1           Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2010 (No. 6).

2.          Commencement

These Rules commence on:

(a) 20 September 2010; or

(b) if registered after 20 September 2010, the day after registration.

3.          Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2010

The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2010 as amended .

Schedule―Amendments

[1]      Schedule 4, Clause 6 Minimum benefit, Table 1:

Delete:

Queensland   $96.00

Insert:

Queensland   $98.50

Delete:

Tasmania   $113.65

Insert:

Tasmania   $116.05

[2]      Schedule 4, Clause 6 Minimum benefit, Table 2:

Delete:

Private hospitals               $63.75

Insert:

Private hospitals               $62.75

Note

1.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See These Rules amend the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2010, which commenced on 29 January 2010.