Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 7)
 
I, RICHARD BARTLETT, 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.
 
 
 
 
Richard Bartlett
First Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Department of Health
11 December 2013
 
 
 

Contents
 
 
PART 1            PRELIMINARY   3
 
1           Name of Rules  3
2.          Commencement 3
3.          Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011                                                                             3
 
 
Schedule – Amendments  4
 
Part 1        Preliminary
 
1.               Name of Rules
 
These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 7).
 
2.               Commencement
 
These Rules commence on 1 January 2014, or if registered after
1 January 2014, the day after registration.
 
3.               Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 as amended.
Schedule – Amendments
 
Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
 
Item 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 2013 (No. 7) commence.