Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2025 (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2025

I, Paul McBride, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make the following rules.

Dated, 30 July 2025

Paul McBride

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Strategy Branch

Health Systems Strategy Division

Strategy and First Nations Group

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

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1Name

This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2025.

2Commencement

(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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) complaints levy;

(b) late payment penalty;

(c) medical devices and human tissue products levy;

(d) national joint replacement register levy;

(e) risk equalisation levy.

In this instrument:

Act means the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

complaints levy day has the meaning given by the Private Health Insurance (Complaints Levy) Act 1995.

listed itemhas the meaning given as a levy imposition day for the purposes of subsection 4.

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Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6Complaints levy

For paragraph 307-1 (1) (b) of the Act, the paymentday for complaints levy imposed on a complaints levy day is the 31 December immediately after the complaints levy day.

7Risk equalisation levy

For paragraph 307-1 (1) (b) of the Act, the payment day for risk equalisation levy imposed on a risk equalisation levy day is 14 days after that day.

1. Note:

   Risk equalisation levy is imposed on the 21st day of the second month of each quarter ending on the last day of March, June, September or December in a financial year.

8National joint replacement register levy

For paragraph 307-1 (1) (b) of the Act, the payment day for national joint replacement register levy imposed on a national joint replacement register levy day is 21 days after that day.

Note: The Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rule 2015 specifies the national joint replacement register levy imposition day.

9Medical devices and human tissue products levy

1. (1)

   For subsection 307-30(2) of the Act, medical devices and human tissue products levy imposed for a financial year in relation to a listed item is payable by the person mentioned for the listed item in Schedule 1 to the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules in force on the medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day in respect of that financial year.

2. (2)

   For paragraph 307-1(1)(b) of the Act, the payment day for medical devices and human tissue products levy imposed on a medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day is 28 days after that day.

   Note: The Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Rules 2025 specify the medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day.

10Rate of late payment penalty

For paragraph 307-5 (2) (a) of the Act, the rate of late payment penalty is 15% per year.

Schedule 1Repeals

Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015

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The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015.