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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 84.15

Remedies for people affected by non - complying policies

    On application by the Minister, if the Federal Court is satisfied that:

  (a)   a private health insurer has engaged in conduct that contravenes section   63 - 1 or is an offence against section   84 - 1; or

  (b)   both:

  (i)   a private health insurer has refused or failed to do a thing; and

  (ii)   that refusal or failure contravenes section   63 - 1 or is an offence against section   84 - 1;

the court may order the insurer to do either or both of the following:

  (c)   take specified action to ensure that an insurance policy becomes a * complying health insurance policy;

  (d)   take specified action to ensure that a person insured under an insurance policy is put in the position the person would have been in, had the policy always been a complying health insurance policy.



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