1Private 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

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

Commencement

2. This Determination is to commence on 1 January 2000.

Interpretation

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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;

(c) Fund membership number;

(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