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 ).”. |