Health Insurance (Standard Premium) Regulations 2008
HEALTH INSURANCE (STANDARD PREMIUM) REGULATIONS
2008


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BR 13/2008

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1970

1970 : 523

HEALTH INSURANCE (STANDARD PREMIUM) REGULATIONS
2008

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Citation
2 Standard premium
3 Persons over the age of 65

4 Revocation of BR 28/2007
5 Commencement




The Minister responsible for Health, in exercise of the powers
conferred on him by section 40(1)(b) of the Health Insurance Act 1970,
makes the following Regulations:

Citation
1 These Regulations may be cited as the Health Insurance
(Standard Premium) Regulations 2008.

Standard premium
2 Subject to regulation 3, the standard premium payable in
respect of the standard hospital benefit shall be $187.21 a month (or
$43.20 a week where paid weekly) of which $22.84 a month (or $5.27 a
week) shall be paid into the Mutual Re-Insurance Fund.

Persons over the age of 65
3 The standard premium payable in respect of the standard
hospital benefit for persons over the age of sixty-five years who do not
qualify for subsidised hospital treatment under section 2(1)(b) of the Act
shall be $680.32 a month (or $157.00 a week) of which $22.84 a month
(or $5.27 a week) shall be paid into the Mutual Re-Insurance Fund.

HEALTH INSURANCE (STANDARD PREMIUM) REGULATIONS
2008


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Revocation of BR 28/2007
4 The Health Insurance (Standard Premium) Regulations 2007 are
revoked.

Commencement
5 These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 April 2008.







Made this 24th day of March, 2008







Minister of Health