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Private Health Insurance Incentive (Form and Content of Receipt) Determination (22/12/1999)

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This Determination requires private health insurers to provide members with hard‑copy receipts that prove premium payments so customers can claim the Australian Government’s 30% private health insurance rebate.

Receipts must include the insurer and membership details, premium and cover dates, and a clear statement either that the premium was not reduced by the 30% rebate or stating the dollar amount of rebate applied.

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Private Health Insurance Incentive (Form and Content of Receipt) Determination (22/12/1999)

Commonwealth of Australia

Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998

Private Health Insurance Incentive
(Form and Content of Receipt) Determination

(PHIIA 4-6/1/1999)

I, Jeffrey Allan Harmer, Managing Director of the Health Insurance Commission, make the following Determination under section 4-6 of the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

Dated this 22nd day of December 1999.

J Harmer

Managing Director of Health Insurance Commission

Citation

This Determination may be cited as the Private Health Insurance Incentives (Form and Content of Receipt) Determination.

Commencement

This Determination is to commence on 1 January 2000.

Interpretation

In this Determination:

“Act” means the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

“health fund” has the same meaning as assigned in the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

Form of Receipt

For the purposes of section 4-6 of the Act, a receipt from a health fund must be in either written or printed form.

Content of Receipt

For the purposes of section 4-6 of the Act, a receipt from a health fund must contain the following information:

(a) Fund name;

(b) Fund identification;

(d) amount of premium paid (related to the period of cover being claimed);

(e) period of cover paid (from and to dates); and

(f) a sentence saying ‘The premium paid for this policy, as shown above, has not been reduced by the Federal Government’s 30% Rebate’ or the amount of rebate deducted

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Private Health Insurance Incentive (Form and Content of Receipt) Determination (22/12/1999)