40‑1 Notification to insured people etc.40‑1 Notification to insured people etc.

40‑1 Notification to insured people etc. (1) A private health insurer must comply with any requirements specified in the Private Health Insurance (Lifetime Health Cover) Rules relating to providing information to: (a) *adults in respect of *hospital cover with the private health insurer; and (b) other adults who apply for, or inquire about, that hospital cover; about increases under this Part in the amounts of premiums payable for hospital cover in respect of those adults. (2) A private health insurer must comply with any requirements specified in the Private Health Insurance (Lifetime Health Cover) Rules relating to providing information to other private health insurers about increases under this Part in the amounts of premiums payable for *hospital cover with the private health insurer. (3) The Private Health Insurance (Lifetime Health Cover) Rules may require or permit a private health insurer to provide information of a kind referred to in this section in the form of an age notionally attributed, to an *adult or other person, as the age from which the adult or other person will be treated as having had continuous *hospital cover. (4) A private health insurer must keep separate records in relation to each *adult who has *hospital cover. (5) When an *adult ceases to be *covered by *hospital cover under which more than one adult was covered, the private health insurer must notify each other adult that the adult has ceased to be covered by the cover.