Private Health Insurance Act 2007

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION  

PART 1-1 - INTRODUCTION  

Division 3 - Overview of this Act  

SECTION 3-1  

3-1   WHAT THIS ACT IS ABOUT  
This Act is about private health insurance. It:

(a)    provides incentives to encourage people to have private health insurance; and

(b)    sets out rules governing private health insurance ^[*]

To find definitions of asterisked terms, see the Dictionary in Schedule 1 .

products.

(c) (Repealed by No 87 of 2015)

Note:

The Private Health Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2015 sets out the registration process for private health insurers, imposes requirements about how private health insurers conduct health insurance business and deals with other matters in relation to the prudential supervision of private health insurers.

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History

S 3-1 amended by No 87 of 2015, s 3 and Sch 1 items 43 - 45, by substituting " *products. " for " *products; and " in para (b), repealing para (c) and inserting the note, effective 1 July 2015. For transitional provisions, see note under s 3-15 . Para (c) formerly read:

(c) imposes requirements about how insurers conduct *health insurance business.

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