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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 93.15

Giving information to newly insured people

  (1)   A private health insurer must ensure that, when an * adult first becomes insured under a * complying health insurance policy of the insurer, the adult is given:

  (a)   an * up to date copy of the * private health information statement for the * product subgroup that the policy belongs to, by a method (if any) set out in the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules; and

  (b)   details about what the policy * covers and how benefits provided under it are worked out; and

  (c)   a statement identifying the * health benefits fund to which the policy is referable.

  (2)   If more than one * adult becomes insured under a single * complying health insurance policy of a private health insurer, the insurer is taken to comply with subsection   (1) if the insurer complies with that subsection in relation to only one of those adults.


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