Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1997 No. 55, 1997 - SECT 8.4

(1) The Commission must, in respect of each amount that would otherwise be
payable to a health fund under section 8-3, make such adjustments to take
account of:

   (a)  policies that the health fund issued to participants in the incentives
        scheme other than on the first day of a month; and

   (b)  policies that the health fund issued to participants in the incentives
        scheme that were terminated other than on the first day of a month; as
        are required by this section.

(2) Adjustments must be worked out in respect of the periods determined by the
Managing Director.

(3) Adjustments must be worked out in accordance with guidelines made, in
writing, by the Minister relating to:

   (a)  the circumstances in which adjustments will be made; and

   (b)  how the amounts of adjustments will be worked out. Note: Decisions
        relating to whether to make adjustments, and the amounts of
        adjustments that are made, are reviewable under section 13- 1.

(4) Guidelines made under subsection (3) are disallowable instruments for the
purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation  Act 1901 .