Health Insurance (Amdment) Act 2001
Number 17 of 2001
HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 21 March 2023
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Act 2023 (6/2023), enacted 10 March 2023, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Appointment of Special Advisers (Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 169 of 2023), made 21 March 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 17 of 2001
HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 21 March 2023
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
Health Insurance Acts 1994 to 2022: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation (Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2022 (49/2022), s. 8(3)). The Acts in this group are:
• Health Insurance Act 1994 (16/1994)
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001 (17/2001)
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2003 (11/2003)
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2007 (3/2007)
• Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (24/2009), Part 2
• Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 (34/2011), ss. 2 , 3 and 4
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2012 (45/2012)
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2013 (48/2013), other than s. 12
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2014 (42/2014), other than s. 8
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2015 (54/2015), other than s. 6
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2016 (19/2016), other than s. 8
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2017 (37/2017), other than s. 6
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2018 (35/2018), other than ss. 5 to 7
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2019 (49/2019), other than s. 5
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2020 (24/2020), other than s. 5
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2021 (47/2021), other than s. 8
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2022 (49/2022), other than s. 7
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
An explanation of how to read annotations is available at
www.lawreform.ie/annotations.
Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.
A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at www.irishstatutebook.ie.
Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2008 (6/2008)
All Acts up to and including Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Act 2023 (6/2023), enacted 10 March 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001 (Commencement) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 212 of 2009)
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001 (Commencement) Order 2005 (S.I. No. 322 of 2005)
• Health Insurance (Amendment) Act, 2001 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 514 of 2001)
All statutory instruments up to and including Appointment of Special Advisers (Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 169 of 2023), made 21 March 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 17 of 2001
HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 21 March 2023
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1.
2.
Amendment of definition of “health insurance contract” in Principal Act.
3.
Further amendment of section 2(1) of Principal Act.
4.
Certain arrangements by employers to constitute health insurance contracts.
5.
Prohibition of non-community rated health insurance contracts.
6.
Premiums which may be charged under health insurance contracts in certain circumstances.
7.
8.
Obligation to provide health insurance.
9.
10.
11.
Annual report with respect to the operation of a scheme.
12.
Performance of functions under Principal Act — equality of treatment of undertakings.
13.
Miscellaneous amendments of Principal Act.
14.
Additional powers of Voluntary Health Insurance Board. (Repealed)
15.
Acts Referred to
Civil Service Regulation Act, 1956
Health Act, 1970
Health Insurance Act, 1994
Health (Nursing Homes) Act, 1990
Insurance Act, 1936
Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997
Voluntary Health Insurance Acts, 1957 to 1998
Number 17 of 2001
HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2001
REVISED
Updated to 21 March 2023
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, 1994, AND TO MAKE PROVISION WITH RESPECT TO THE POWERS OF THE VOLUNTARY HEALTH INSURANCE BOARD. [27th June, 2001]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: