Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 10) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 10)

I, Ian Crettenden, 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.

Ian Crettenden

Assistant Secretary

Health Technology and Assessment Branch

Department of Health

6 December 2017

Contents

Part 1Preliminary

1.

Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 10).

2.Commencement

This instrument commences on 1 January 2018.

3.Authority

These Rules are made under item 3A of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4.Schedule

1. Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 ― Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

1. 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 2017 (No.10)