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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2009
2008-2009
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Private Health Insurance Legislation
Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009
No. , 2009
(Health and Ageing)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law in relation to
private health insurance, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Private Health Insurance Act 2007
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Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009 No. , 2009 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the law in relation to
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private health insurance, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Private Health Insurance Legislation
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Amendment Act (No. 2) 2009.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal
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Assent.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009 No. , 2009 3
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Private Health Insurance Act 2007
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1 Subsection 72-1(2) (table item 4, column headed "There
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must be a benefit for ...")
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Omit all the words from and including "that is the provision of a
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prosthesis", substitute:
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that is the provision of a
prosthesis, of a kind listed in
the Private Health Insurance
(Prostheses) Rules, as described
in either of the following
paragraphs:
(c) the prosthesis is provided in
circumstances in which a
*
medicare benefit is
payable, and, if those Rules
set out conditions that must
be satisfied in relation to the
provision of the prosthesis
in those circumstances,
those conditions are
satisfied;
(d) the prosthesis is provided in
other circumstances set out
in those Rules, and, if those
Rules set out conditions that
must be satisfied in relation
to the provision of the
prosthesis in those
circumstances, those
conditions are satisfied.
2 At the end of section 72-10
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Add:
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(6) The Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules may set out
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criteria (listing criteria) to be satisfied in order for an application
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(a listing application) made under subsection (2) to be granted.
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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The Rules may provide for different listing criteria to apply in
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different circumstances.
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(7) The Minister must not grant a listing application if any applicable
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listing criteria are not satisfied in relation to the application.
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Note:
The Minister may refuse to grant a listing application even if the
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applicable listing criteria are satisfied.
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