Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1997 No. 55, 1997 - SECT 7.3

(1) The Minister must approve the application unless the health fund is
subject to Part VIA of the National Health Act 1953. However, even if the
health fund is subject to that Part, the Minister may approve the application
if the Minister is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.

(2) A health fund is subject to Part VIA of the National Health Act  1953 if:

   (a)  the Minister has served a notice under subsection 82R(1) of that Act
        on the health fund and the Minister has not decided whether an
        inspector should be appointed to investigate the affairs of the health
        fund; or

   (b)  the Minister has appointed under subsection 82R(2) of that Act an
        inspector to investigate the affairs of the health fund and the
        investigation has been neither completed nor terminated; or

   (c)  the Minister is considering a report in relation to the health fund
        prepared under paragraph 82W(1)(b) of that Act and the Minister has
        not decided, having regard to the report, whether to make an
        application under section 82Z of that Act; or

   (d)  the Minister has made such an application, and the application has not
        been finally determined; or

   (e)  an application has been made by the health fund under section 82ZG of
        that Act, and the application has not been finally determined; or

   (f)  an order for judicial management, made on the Minister's application
        under section 82Z of that Act, is in force; or

   (g)  an order for winding up, made on the Minister's application under
        section 82Z of that Act or the application of the health fund under
        section 82ZG of that Act, has been made.