PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1997

***** Repealed 1 July 2000 *****

PART 2 - THE INCENTIVES SCHEME

Division 5 - What effect does the scheme have on insurance premiums?

SECTION 5-5   PERSONS WHO ARE NOT ELIGIBLE PERSONS FOR PART OF A FINANCIAL YEAR  

5-5    If, on one or more days during a financial year, a person:

(a)  is not an eligible person within the meaning of section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973; or

(b)  is not treated as an eligible person under section 6 of that Act;

for the purposes of section 5-1, any premium payable under a private health insurance policy that has been paid (or would, apart from this section, be taken to have been paid) in respect of the whole or part of the financial year by the person is taken not to have been paid in respect of those days.