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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 121.20

Exception: accident and sickness insurance business

  (1)   Despite section   121 - 1, * health insurance business does not include the business of undertaking liability, by way of insurance, to pay a lump sum, or to make periodic payments, on the happening of a personal accident, disease or sickness.

  (2)   However, this section does not apply to:

  (a)   business where liability is undertaken with respect to loss arising out of a liability to pay fees or charges in relation to the provision in Australia of * hospital treatment or * general treatment; or

  (b)   business of a kind specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules for the purposes of this paragraph.



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