{"id":"C2004L06646","name":"Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Act 2004 - Proclamation (22/04/2004)","slug":"health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":28295,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004L06646-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Act 2004 - Proclamation (22/04/2004)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nProclamation\n\nHealth Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Act 2004\n\nI, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under items 2, 3, 6 and 9 of the table in subsection 2 (1) of the Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Act 2004:\n\n(a) fix 23 April 2004 as the day on which item 58 and items 67 to 69 of Schedule 1 to that Act commence; and\n\n(b) fix 1 July 2004 as the day on which items 1 to 24 and items 25 to 27 of Schedule 1 to that Act commence.\n\nSigned and sealed with the  Great Seal of Australia  on 22 April 2004\n\nP. M. JEFFERY\n\nGovernor-General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nTONY ABBOTT\n\nMinister for Health and Ageing\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2864},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This proclamation does not alter the substantive scope of the underlying Act; it merely exercises the commencement power already provided in section 2(1) of the parent Act to bring specific provisions into force on the stated dates."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose instrument containing only commencement dates","No defined terms, interpretation section, or conditional logic","Straightforward administrative execution of powers granted in the parent Act","Only two operative paragraphs"],"plain_english_summary":"This document is a formal order (**proclamation**) by the Governor-General that switches on specific parts of the *Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Act 2004*.\n\nIt sets two different start dates for the law’s provisions:\n\n*   **23 April 2004**: Certain technical rules take effect.\n*   **1 July 2004**: The main private health insurance reforms take effect.\n\nThis staged approach allows technical preparations to happen in April, while the significant changes to health insurance take effect on 1 July 2004 (the start of the financial year)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004","history":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-legislation-amendment-private-health-insurance-reform-act-2004-proclamation-22-04-2004/documents"}}