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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1997 No. 55, 1997 - SECT 8.2

Requirements for claims

(1) A claim by a health fund in respect of a month must be made to the
Commission on or before the last day of the notification period for that
month. Note: For notification period, see the Dictionary.

(2) The claim must contain such details as the Managing Director determines in
writing.

(3) The details may include, but are not limited to, details about any or all
of the following private health insurance policies issued by the health fund:

   (a)  policies that were, on the first day of the month, policies in respect
        of which persons were participants in the incentives scheme;

   (b)  policies that had been, at any time before that day, policies in
        respect of which persons were participants in the incentives scheme.

(4) The Managing Director must not determine under subsection (2) that the
health fund must provide:

   (a)  the tax file number of any person; or

   (b)  any information about the income of a person who is a participant in
        the incentives scheme, or the income of any other person, other than
        that each participant in the incentives scheme has made a statutory
        declaration under section 4-3, and has not given a notice under
        subsection 4-7(1); or

   (c)  information about the physical, psychological or emotional health of
        any person.

(5) Determinations under subsection (1) or (2) are disallowable instruments
for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation  Act 1901 .

(6) A claim under this section must be in a form approved by the Managing
Director. 


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