Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 131.15

             (1)  Health-related business is business that is any one or more of the following:

                     (a)  a business of providing goods or services (or both) in order to manage or prevent diseases, injuries or conditions;

                     (b)  a business of undertaking liability, by way of insurance, to indemnify people who are * ineligible for Medicare for costs associated with providing treatment, goods or services that:

                              (i)  are provided to those people in Australia; and

                             (ii)  are provided to manage or prevent diseases, injuries or conditions;

                     (c)  a business of providing a financial service to assist people insured under * complying health insurance products to meet the costs associated with treatment, goods or services that are provided to manage or prevent diseases, injuries or conditions;

                     (d)  any other business, or business included in a class of businesses, specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Benefits Fund Policy) Rules for the purposes of this paragraph.

             (2)  Despite subsection (1), neither of the following is health-related business :

                     (a)  business that is * health insurance business; or

                     (b)  any other business, or business included in a class of businesses, specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Benefits Fund Policy) Rules for the purposes of this paragraph.