Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 34.25

             (1)  A person's lifetime health cover base day is the day worked out by using this diagram:

             (2)  A person is a new arrival if:

                     (a)  the person entered Australia for the first time on or after 1 July 2000; and

                     (b)  the person was not an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia at the time of the entry.

             (3)  A person's medicare eligibility day is the day on which the person is registered by the Medicare Australia CEO as an eligible person within the meaning of section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 .

             (4)  Despite subsection (1), if:

                     (a)  on or before 1 April 2007, a person's Schedule 2 application day had arrived for the purposes of the National Health Act 1953 ; and

                     (b)  the person had * hospital cover on 1 April 2007; and

                     (c)  the person has had hospital cover continuously since that day;

the person's lifetime health cover base day is the person's Schedule 2 application day. For this purpose, a day on which the person has hospital cover does not include a * permitted day without hospital cover or a day on which the person would otherwise be taken to have hospital cover because of subsection 34‑15(2).