Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2008

Amendment of section 10 of Act of 1994.

4.— Section 10 (as amended by section 13 of the Act of 2001) of the Act of 1994 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “Subject to subsection (3), a health insurance contract effected by a registered undertaking” for “A health insurance contract effected by a registered undertaking (other than such a contract relating solely to relevant health services or solely to the public hospital daily in-patient charges made under the Health (In-patient Charges) Regulations, 1987 ( S.I. No. 116 of 1987 ))”, and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a health insurance contract—

(a) where, and without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of ‘health insurance contract’ (inserted by section 2 of the Act of 2001) in section 2(1), such a contract, either of itself or as construed with any linked or related other health insurance contract, makes no provision for the making of in-patient indemnity payments, or

(b) relating solely to the public hospital daily in-patient charges made under the Health (In-patient Charges) Regulations 1987 ( S.I. No. 116 of 1987 ).”.