PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 2007

PART 6 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CHAPTER 6 OF THE NEW ACT  

Division 1 - Private Health Insurance Ombudsman  

Subdivision D - Private Health Insurance Ombudsman and staff  

SECTION 37   PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE OMBUDSMAN  

(1)    
The person holding office as the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman under section 82ZR of the National Health Act 1953 immediately before the Ombudsman conversion time is taken to have been duly appointed as the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman by the Minister under section 253-1 of the new Act:


(a) for the balance of the person ' s term of appointment that remained immediately before the Ombudsman conversion time; and


(b) on the same terms and conditions as applied to the person immediately before the Ombudsman conversion time.

(2)    
If there is no person holding office as the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman under section 82ZR of the National Health Act 1953 immediately before the Ombudsman conversion time, then the person who is, immediately before that time, acting as the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman under section 82ZUA of the National Health Act 1953 is taken, from the Ombudsman conversion time, to have been appointed to act as the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman under section 253-10 of the new Act:


(a) during the vacancy or during the period or periods for which the person was appointed to act under the National Health Act 1953 ; and


(b) on the same terms and conditions as applied to the person immediately before the Ombudsman conversion time.


 

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