Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00183:section:10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00183
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10
Character Range: 15884–17984

10  Status of existing applicable benefits arrangements and tables of ancillary benefits

Applicable benefits arrangements
 (1) If, immediately before the commencement time, contributors to a health benefits fund conducted by a registered organization were covered by an applicable benefits arrangement of the organization, then:
 (a) at the commencement time, the arrangement is, to the extent to which it covered a particular contributor and his or her dependants (if any), taken to be a complying health insurance policy under which that contributor and those dependants (if any) are insured; and
 (b) that part of the arrangement continues to be taken to be a complying health insurance policy until the earlier of:
 (i) 1 July 2008; and
 (ii) the day on which a relevant change (see subsection (3)) to that part of the arrangement takes effect.

Tables of ancillary benefits
 (2) If, immediately before the commencement time, contributors to a health benefits fund conducted by a registered organization were covered by a table of ancillary health benefits of the organization, then:
 (a) at the commencement time, the table is, to the extent to which it covered a particular contributor and his or her dependants (if any), taken to be a complying health insurance policy under which that contributor and those dependants (if any) are insured; and
 (b) that part of the table continues to be taken to be a complying health insurance policy until the earlier of:
 (i) 1 July 2008; and
 (ii) the day on which a relevant change (see subsection (3)) to that part of the table takes effect.

Relevant change
 (3) If, more than 15 days after the commencement time, a private health insurer makes a change to its rules, or to anything else, in a way that affects:
 (a) the amount of premiums payable under an arrangement or table that is taken to be a complying health insurance policy because of subsection (1) or (2); or
 (b) the treatments covered by such a policy; or
 (c) a benefit for treatment covered by such a policy;
the change is a relevant change to each part of the arrangement or table.