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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 (NO. 31, 2007) - SECT 84.15

Remedies for people affected by non-complying policies

                   On application by the Minister, if the Federal Court is satisfied that:

                     (a)  a private health insurer has engaged in conduct that contravenes section 63‑1 or is an offence against section 84‑1; or

                     (b)  both:

                              (i)  a private health insurer has refused or failed to do a thing; and

                             (ii)  that refusal or failure contravenes section 63‑1 or is an offence against section 84‑1;

the court may order the insurer to do either or both of the following:

                     (c)  take specified action to ensure that an insurance policy becomes a * complying health insurance policy;

                     (d)  take specified action to ensure that a person insured under an insurance policy is put in the position the person would have been in, had the policy always been a complying health insurance policy.


 



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