Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 6)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.
 
 
 
Shane Porter
Assistant Secretary
Private Health Insurance Branch
Medical Benefits Division
Department of Health
17 December 2014
 
 
 

 
Contents
 
 
Part 1  Preliminary   3
 
1     Name of Rules                                                                                             3
2.    Commencement 3
3.    Authority                                                                                                       3
4.    Schedule  3
 
Schedule A ― Amendment   3
 
 
 
 
Part 1        Preliminary
1.              Name of Rules
 
These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 6) (this Instrument).
 
2.              Commencement
 
These Rules commence on:
(a) 1 January 2015; or
(b) if registered after 1 January 2015, 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
 
This Instrument amends the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 as set out in Schedule A of this Instrument.
 
Schedule A ― Amendment
Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
 
 [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 2014 (No. 6) commence.
Notes
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