Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009

Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009

No. 51, 2009

Compilation No. 3

Compilation date: 18 November 2025

Includes amendments: Act No. 55, 2025

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 18 November 2025 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

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Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Crown to be bound

4 Extension of Act to external Territories

5 Definitions

6 Imposition of national joint replacement register levy

7 Rate of national joint replacement register levy

7A Who must pay the national joint replacement register levy?

8 Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules

8A Ministerial determination

9 Regulations

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

An Act to impose the national joint replacement register levy

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Act 2009.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

 (2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

3  Crown to be bound

  This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.

4  Extension of Act to external Territories

  This Act extends to the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and to the Territory of Christmas Island.

5  Definitions

 (1) In this Act:

joint replacement device means a medical device (within the meaning of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007) that:

 (a) is listed in the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules; and

 (b) is used in joint replacement.

national joint replacement register levy means the national joint replacement register levy imposed under section 6.

national joint replacement register levy day means a national joint replacement register levy day specified in the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules made for the purposes of section 6.

Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules means the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules made for the purposes of item 4 of the table in subsection 333‑20(1) of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules means the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules made under section 8.

register means the register known as the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry.

supplementary national joint replacement register levy day means a supplementary national joint replacement register levy day specified in a determination by the Minister under section 8A.

 (3) The Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules may provide that one or more classes of medical devices (within the meaning of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007) are taken, or are taken not, to be joint replacement devices for the purposes of the definition of joint replacement device in subsection (1).

6  Imposition of national joint replacement register levy

 (1) National joint replacement register levy is imposed on the recording on the register of the provision of a joint replacement device:

 (a) on each day specified in the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules as a national joint replacement register levy day for a financial year; and

 (b) on each day (if any) specified in a determination under section 8A as a supplementary national joint replacement register levy day for a financial year.

 (2) The Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules must not specify more than 4 levy days for a financial year.

 (3) The determination under section 8A must not specify more than 2 supplementary levy days for a financial year.

7  Rate of national joint replacement register levy

 (1) The rate of national joint replacement register levy imposed on a particular day is worked out using the following table:

 (2) The Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules, and a determination under section 8A, may:

 (a) specify different rates of levy, or different methods for calculating the rate of levy, in relation to different classes of joint replacement devices; and

 (b) specify a rate of levy of zero in relation to one or more classes of joint replacement devices; and

 (c) specify a rate of levy, or a method for calculating the rate of levy, that takes into account the number of times recordings were made on the register of the provision of a joint replacement device during a particular period.

 (3) Despite subsection (2), the total amount of levy for a financial year for recordings on the register of the provision of a joint replacement device must not exceed $5,000.

7A  Who must pay the national joint replacement register levy?

  National joint replacement register levy imposed in relation to a joint replacement device is payable by the person specified by the Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules for the joint replacement device.

8  Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules

  The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rules providing for matters:

 (a) required or permitted by this Act to be provided; or

 (b) necessary or convenient to be provided in order to carry out or give effect to this Act.

8A  Ministerial determination

  The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make a determination:

 (a) specifying a supplementary national joint replacement register levy day for a financial year (see section 6); and

 (b) specifying, or specifying a method for calculating, a rate of national joint replacement register levy (see section 7).

9  Regulations

  The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:

 (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

 (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

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Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

Abbreviation key—Endnote 2

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Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4

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Misdescribed amendments

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Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history