Hospital Insurance Amendment Act 2002
HOSPITAL INSURANCE AMENDMENT ACT 2002

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HOSPITAL INSURANCE AMENDMENT ACT 2002

[Date of Assent: 20 March 2002]

[Operative Date: 1 April 2002]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Hospital Insurance Act
1970:

Be it enacted by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Assembly of
Bermuda, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Citation
1 This Act which amends the Hospital Insurance Act 1970
(hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act") may be cited as the
Hospital Insurance Amendment Act 2002 .

Amends section 3A of principal Act
2 Section 3A of the principal Act 1970 is amended —

(a) by deleting subsections (2) and (2A) and substituting the
following —

"(2) There shall be payable out of the Mutual Re-insurance
Fund

(a) all claims for haemodialysis;

(b) after a licensed insurer has paid all claims arising
in connection with a kidney transplant for which

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the insurer is liable under the contract, up to
$30,000 towards the cost of the kidney transplant
and the full cost of all maintenance drugs;

(c) all claims for in-patient hospital treatment arising
after the first sixty days of such treatment, where
the patient has been hospitalized for a continuous
period in excess of sixty days; and

(d) all claims for magnetic resonance imaging.

(2A) There may be paid out of the Mutual Re-insurance Fund
into the Fund such sum as the Minister may, from time to
time by order, prescribe.

(2B) Section 6 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1977 does
not apply to an order made under subsection (2A).".

(b) in subsection (3), by deleting the words "The Fund" and
substituting the words "The Mutual-Re-insurance Fund".

Amends section 16 of principal Act
3 Section 16 of principal Act is amended by inserting next after the
word "Fund" wherever it appears in that section the words "and the
Mutual Re-insurance Fund".

Amends section 17 of principal Act
4 Section 17 of the principal Act is amended by inserting next after
the word "Fund" wherever it appears in that section the words "and of
the Mutual Re-insurance Fund".

Commencement
5 This Act comes into operation on 1 April 2002.