PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1998

CHAPTER 4 - PROVISIONS APPLYING BOTH TO INCENTIVE PAYMENTS SCHEME AND TO PREMIUMS REDUCTION SCHEME  

PART 7 - GENERAL  

Division 19 - Miscellaneous  

SECTION 19-15   INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED TO THE COMMISSIONER  

19-15(1)   [Provision of information]  

The Medicare Australia CEO must, within 120 days after the end of each financial year, give the following information to the Commissioner :

(a) the name, date of birth and residential address of each person who:

(i) paid a premium under an * appropriate private health insurance policy for that financial year; or

(ii) received a payment under Chapter 2 in respect of such a premium; or

(iii) was a * participant in the premiums reduction scheme in respect of an appropriate private health insurance policy for that financial year;

(b) the name of the * health fund that issued the policy;

(ba) the fund membership number of the policy;

(bb) the identification code of the fund that issued the policy;

(bc) the type of membership provided by the fund in respect of the policy;

(bd) whether the policy has been terminated or is suspended;

(be) if the policy has been terminated or is suspended, the date of the termination or suspension;

(c) the * type of cover provided by the policy;

(d) the total amount of payments to a health fund in respect of the policy;

(e) the period in respect of which those payments were made;

(f) the name and date of birth of any other person covered by the policy in respect of which those payments were made;

(g) whether any person covered by the policy was a * dependent child at any time during that financial year;

(h) the total amounts paid by the Medicare Australia CEO under Chapters 2 and 3 for the financial year;

(i) any other information that the Commissioner determines in writing.

19-15(2)   [Limitations]  

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(i), the * Commissioner must not make a determination requiring the Medicare Australia CEO to provide:

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

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

19-15(3)   [Disallowable instruments]  

Determinations under paragraph (1)(i) are disallowable instruments for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .