Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 3) 1
I, SHANE PORTER, 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.
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Shane Porter
Assistant Secretary
Private Health Insurance Branch
Medical Benefits Division
Department of Health
22 July 2014
Contents
PART 1 PRELIMINARY 3
1 Name of Rules 3
2. Commencement 3
3. Authority 3
4. Schedule 3
Schedule A – Amendments 4
Schedule B – Amendments 4
Part 1 Preliminary
1. Name of Rules
These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 3).
2. Commencement
These Rules commence on the day after registration.
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
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 A – Amendments
Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
1 Schedule 1, Part 2 Type A procedures, Clause 6 Surgical patient, subclause (3)
After “42734” delete “42737”
Schedule B ― Amendments
Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
1 Schedule 5, 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 2014 (No. 3) commence.
Notes
1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.comlaw.gov.au