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Private Health Insurance Act 2007
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93‑15 Giving information to newly insured people
(1) A private health insurer must ensure that, when an *adult first becomes insured under a *complying health insurance policy of the insurer, the adult is given:
(a) an *up to date copy of the *private health information statement for the *product subgroup that the policy belongs to, by a method (if any) set out in the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules; and
(b) details about what the policy *covers and how benefits provided under it are worked out; and
(c) a statement identifying the *health benefits fund to which the policy is referable.
(2) If more than one *adult becomes insured under a single *complying health insurance policy of a private health insurer, the insurer is taken to comply with subsection (1) if the insurer complies with that subsection in relation to only one of those adults.