Health Insurance (Standard Premium) Regulations 2009
HEALTH INSURANCE (STANDARD PREMIUM) REGULATIONS
2009



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BR 23/2009

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1970

1970 : 523

HEALTH INSURANCE (STANDARD PREMIUM) REGULATIONS

2009

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Citation

2 Standard premium

3 Persons over the age of 65

4 Revocation of BR 13/2008

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 2009.

Standard premium
2 Subject to regulation 3, the standard premium payable in
respect of the standard hospital benefit shall be $208.44 a month (or
$48.11 a week where paid weekly) of which $24.43 a month (or $5.64 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) and (bb) of
the Act shall be $775.36 a month (or $178.93 a week) of which $24.43 a

HEALTH INSURANCE (STANDARD PREMIUM) REGULATIONS
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month (or $5.64 a week) shall be paid into the Mutual Re-Insurance
Fund.

Revocation of BR 13/2008
4 The Health Insurance (Standard Premium) Regulations 2008 are
revoked.

Commencement
5 These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 April 2009.







Made this 25th day of March, 2009







Minister of Health