This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Data Provision) Amendment Rules 2025.

(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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of the instrument	1 July 2025.	1 July 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 9 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Data Provision) Rules 2018

1 Section 4 (definition of GT-Dental Data from Insurers to the Department)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

GT-Dental Data from Insurers to the Department means the protocol set out in the document approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Private Hospitals Branch of the Department of Health and Aged Care on 14 April 2025 which consists of “Data Specifications (GT-Dental)” and “Explanatory Notes (GT-Dental)”.

2 Section 4 (definition of HCP1 Data from Insurers to the Department)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

HCP1 Data from Insurers to the Department means the protocol set out in the document approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Private Hospitals Branch of the Department of Health and Aged Care on 14 April 2025 which consists of “Data Specifications (HCP1)” and “Explanatory Notes (HCP1)”.

3 Section 4 (definition of HCP2 Data from Insurers to the Department)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

HCP2 Data from Insurers to the Department means the protocol set out in the document approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Private Hospitals Branch of the Department of Health and Aged Care on 14 April 2025 which consists of “Data Specifications (HCP2)” and “Explanatory Notes (HCP2)”.