Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Amendment Rules 2025

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following rules.

Dated               27 February 2025 

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015

1  Name

  This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Amendment Rules 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under item 14 of the table in subsection 333-20(1) of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015

1  Section 5

 Insert:

listed item has the same meaning as in the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Act 2007.

medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day means a levy imposition day specified for the purposes of subsection 6(2) of the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Act 2007 in the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Rules 2025.

Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules means the rules referred to in item 4 of the table in subsection 333-20(1) of the Act.

2  Section 5 (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note:  Where an expression that is used in these Rules is defined for the purposes of the Act, it has the same meaning in these Rules as it has in the Act. Expressions used in these Rules that are defined in the Act include the following:

• complaints levy;
• late payment penalty;
• medical devices and human tissue products levy;
• national joint replacement register levy;
• risk equalisation levy.

3  Section 9 (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note:  The Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rule 2015 specifies the national joint replacement register levy imposition day.

4  After section 9

Insert:

1.      Medical devices and human tissue products levy

1.    For subsection 307-30(2) of the Act, medical devices and human tissue products levy imposed for a financial year in relation to a listed item is payable by the person mentioned for the listed item in Schedule 1 to the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules in force on the medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day in respect of that financial year.
2.    For paragraph 307-1(1)(b) of the Act, the payment day for medical devices and human tissue products levy imposed on a medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day (the imposition day) is 28 days from the imposition day.

Note: The Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Rules 2025 specify the medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day.