Private Health Insurance (Registration) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 2) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Registration) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 2)

I, DOUG FAWNS, delegate of the Minister for Health, make these Rules under item 7 of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

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Doug Fawns

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health and Ageing

19 March 2013

Contents

PART 1          PRELIMINARY    

1.          Name of Rules   3          

2.          Commencement   3     

3.Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Registration) Rules

2009 (No.2)   3   

SCHEDULE – AMENDMENTS  4

Part 1        Preliminary

1. Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Registration) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 2).

1. Commencement

These Rules commence on the day after registration.

1. Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Registration) Rules 2009  (No. 2)

The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Registration) Rules 2009 (No. 2).

Schedule – Amendments

[1]     6. Description of groups for existing restricted access insurers

At item 6(e), delete:  

(e)the siblings, grandchildren and parents of Principal Insureds are also taken to belong to the same Group as those Principal Insureds, except where the Principal Insured is insured by the following *restricted access insurers:

(i)     ACA Health Benefits Fund; or

(ii)     Police Health Limited; or

(iii)     Reserve Bank Health Society Limited;

And insert:

(e)the siblings, grandchildren and parents of Principal Insureds are also taken to belong to the same Group as those Principal Insureds, except where the Principal Insured is insured by the following *restricted access insurers:

(i)    Police Health Limited; or

(ii)     Reserve Bank Health Society Limited;

[2]     6. Description of groups for existing restricted access insurers

At item 6(g), delete:

(g)the partners and *dependent children of persons who are the siblings of Principal Insureds are also taken to belong to the same Group as those Principal Insureds, except where the Principal Insured is insured by the following *restricted access insurers:

(i)     ACA Health Benefits Fund; or

(ii)     Police Health Limited; or

(iii)     Reserve Bank Health Society Limited; 

And insert:

(g)the partners and *dependent children of persons who are the siblings of Principal Insureds are also taken to belong to the same Group as those Principal Insureds, except where the Principal Insured is insured by the following *restricted access insurers:

(i)    Police Health Limited; or

(ii)     Reserve Bank Health Society Limited;