Private Health Insurance Act 2007

S 34-25(1) amended by No 59 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 2 item 307, by substituting " , (4) and (4A) " for " and (4) " , effective 1 July 2016.

S 34-25(3) amended by No 46 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 2 item 923, by substituting " Australian citizen " for " *Australian citizen " , effective 27 December 2011. No 46 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 3 items 10 and 11 contain the following saving and transitional provisions:

10 Saving - appointments  
10
The amendments made by Schedule 2 do not affect the validity of an appointment that was made under an Act before the commencement of this item and that was in force immediately before that commencement. 11 Transitional regulations  
11
The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to the amendments and repeals made by Schedules 1 and 2.

S 34-25(4A) inserted by No 59 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 2 item 308, effective 1 July 2016.

S 34-25(4B) inserted by No 59 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 2 item 308, effective 1 July 2016.

S 34-25(5) amended by No 32 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 4 item 512, by substituting " Chief Executive Medicare " for " Medicare Australia CEO " , effective 1 July 2011.

S 34-25 substituted by No 63 of 2010, s 3 and Sch 2 item 1, effective 1 July 2010. S 34-25 formerly read:

SECTION 34-25 MEANING OF LIFETIME HEALTH COVER BASE DAY  
34-25(1)
A person ' s lifetime health cover base day is the day worked out by using this diagram:

Working out a person's lifetime health cover base day

34-25(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.

34-25(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 .

34-25(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).