Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 22.25

  (1)   If:

  (a)   the * PHIIB mentioned in subsection   22 - 15(1) was insured under a * complying health insurance policy (the original policy ) (whether or not the policy mentioned in section   22 - 1) at a time before the start of the premium period mentioned in that section; and

  (b)   the PHIIB was not a * dependent person at that time; and

  (c)   at that time, another person (the entitling person ) was:

  (i)   insured under the original policy; and

  (ii)   aged 65 years or over; and

  (d)   the entitling person subsequently ceased to be insured under the original policy;

subsection   22 - 15(1) applies in relation to the complying health insurance policy mentioned in section   22 - 1 as if:

  (e)   the entitling person were also insured under that policy; and

  (f)   the entitling person were the same age as the age at which he or she ceased to be insured under the original policy.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) ceases to apply if a person (other than a * dependent person) who was not insured under the original policy at the time the entitling person ceased to be insured under it becomes insured under the * complying health insurance policy mentioned in section   22 - 1.

  (3)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if its application would result in the * PHIIB's * share of the PHII benefit being less than it would otherwise have been.