Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 7) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 7)

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

Richard Bartlett

First Assistant Secretary

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health

11 December 2013

Contents

PART 1PRELIMINARY3

1 Name of Rules 3

2. Commencement 3

3. Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 3

Schedule – Amendments4

Part 1Preliminary

1.

Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 7).

2.Commencement

These Rules commence on 1 January 2014, or if registered after

1 January 2014, the day after registration.

3.Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 as amended.

Schedule – Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

Item 1 - Schedule 5 - Second-tier default benefits, Clause 4 - Facilities, subclause (1)

Substitute

A hospital is a facility for the purposes of this Schedule if it is included in the list of second-tier eligible facilities approved by the Second Tier Advisory Committee existing at the time that the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 7)