Private Health Insurance Amendment Act (No. 1) 2014

No. 123, 2014

An Act to amend the Private Health Insurance Act 2007, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Private Health Insurance Act 2007

Private Health Insurance Amendment Act (No. 1) 2014

No. 123, 2014

An Act to amend the Private Health Insurance Act 2007, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 November 2014]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Private Health Insurance Amendment Act (No. 1) 2014.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Private Health Insurance Act 2007

1  After subsection 22‑45(3)

Insert:

 (3A) Do not index the amount for the 2015‑16, 2016‑17 or 2017‑18 financial year.

 (3B) If the amount is not indexed for a financial year because of the operation of subsection (3A), the amount for the financial year is the amount for the most recent financial year for which the amount was indexed.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 24 September 2014

Senate on 29 October 2014]