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• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Base Premium) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to provide, for the purposes of determining the private health insurance rebate, a base premium for each private health insurance policy as at 1 April 2013 which will be indexed annually by the lesser of the Consumer Price Index or the percentage of any increase in the premium. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010

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  Date

  17 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: allow for conditional listing of prostheses in the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules (Prostheses Rules); and require the Minister for Health and Ageing to make rules specifying criteria for listing prostheses in the Prostheses Rules. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2008

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  Date

  15 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Insurance Contracts Act 1984

  to remove the 1 July 2008 requirement for health-related business conducted through health benefits funds to be subject to dual regulation by the Private Health Insurance Administration Council and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority; and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: enable restricted access insurers to specify their eligibility requirements in constitutions or operational rules; require all private health insurers to be companies under the Corporations Act by January 2010; clarify that discounted corporate products offered by private health insurers are not a breach of community rating; and provide that a pilot project conducted as specified in the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules does not breach community rating. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2009

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  Date

  03 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to allow insurers to permanently offer extended family policies to cover ‘dependent child non-students’; and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the National Joint Replacement Register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

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  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: provide, for the purposes of determining the private health insurance rebate, a single rebate adjustment factor which will apply to premiums on 1 April each year from 2014; and make a technical amendment. Also repeals the

  Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Base Premium) Act 2013

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to increase maximum excess levels for private hospital cover, the bill amends the:

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: increase maximum excess levels for products providing an exemption from the Medicare levy surcharge; enable age-based premium discounts for hospital cover; enable private health insurers to cover travel and accommodation costs for regional Australians as part of a hospital treatment; require insurers to maintain up to date information about complying health insurance products in the form of a ‘private health information statement’; require the minister to assess and determine whether or not to include a private hospital in a class of hospitals eligible for second-tier default benefits; and enable insurers to terminate products and transfer affected policy-holders to new products;

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to enable age-based premium discounts to be made available to younger people; and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to provide the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman with powers to conduct inspections and audits at the premises of insurers or brokers. Also includes transitional provisions relating to the treatment of benefit limitation period inclusive policies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Private Health Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Bill 2015

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  Date

  27 May 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills to create a regime for the prudential regulation of private health insurers, the bill provides for the imposition of an annual supervisory levy (from the 2016-17 financial year) on bodies registered as private health insurers to recover the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s costs incurred in regulating that industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Proceeds of Crime (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2002

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  Date

  13 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Proceeds of Crime Bill 2002, the bill amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to insert new money laundering offences;

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to update cross references;

  International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995

  in relation to enforcement of foreign restraining and forfeiture orders;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  to: reflect provisions of the new proceeds regime; and relocate provisions which relate to foreign orders and offences;

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  to relocate record retention provisions;

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to ensure that bankruptcy is not used to thwart confiscation of proceeds of crime;

  Family Law Act 1975

  to ensure that property settlements and spousal maintenance cannot be used to defeat confiscation of proceeds of crime;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1997

  so that it does not apply to certain decisions of the Director of Public Prosecutions or an approved examiner;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  and

  Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

  in relation to the functions of the AFP and the DPP respectively;

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  and

  National Crime Authority Act 1984

  to include forfeiture proceedings within the meaning of relevant proceedings;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  in relation to access to taxation information; and

  Proceeds of Crime Act 1987

  to repeal relocated and redundant provisions, including provisions relating to existing money laundering offences. Also makes consequential amendments to 8 other Acts and contains transitional and application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Proceeds of Crime Amendment (Proceeds and Other Matters) Bill 2017

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  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to: expand the unexplained wealth regime to cover wealth that is derived or realised, directly or indirectly, from certain offences; clarify that property becomes ‘proceeds’ or an ‘instrument’ where encumbrances, securities, liabilities or improvements on the property are funded using ‘proceeds’ or an ‘instrument’ of an offence; clarify that property will only be ‘lawfully acquired’ in situations where the property or wealth is not ‘proceeds’ or an ‘instrument’ of an offence; and provide that ‘improvements’ extends to additions to, altering, repairing, restoring, structuring, restructuring or any other change to property or wealth (whether or not it results in an increase in the value of the property or wealth). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Proceeds of Crime Bill 2002

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  Date

  13 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Gives effect to Australia’s obligations under the Council of Europe Money-Laundering Convention and other international instruments concerning the confiscation of proceeds of crime by providing for a civil forfeiture scheme, which will operate in parallel with the existing conviction-based confiscation regime, to confiscate unlawfully acquired property without first requiring a conviction. Also: enables freezing and confiscation of property used in, intended to be used in or derived from terrorism offences; strengthens provisions in relation to conviction-based confiscation; and provides for the confiscation of literary proceeds derived from the exploitation of criminal notoriety for commercial purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum