Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

BR 37/1987

HOSPITAL INSURANCE (HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN) (ENROLMENT) RULES 1987

[made under section 16(1)(b) of the Hospital Insurance Act 1970 [title 18 item 9] and brought into operation on 1 September 1987]

ARRANGEMENT OF RULES

1 Citation

2 Interpretation

3 Initial enrolment period

4 Subsequent enrolment pe riod

5 Enrolment outside enrol ment period

6 Revocation [omitted]

7 Commencement [omitted]

Citation

1 These rules may be cited as the Hospital Insurance (Health In surance Plan)(Enrolment) Rules 1987.

Interpretation

2 (1) In these rules—

"the Act" means the Hospital Insurance Act 1970 [title 18 item 9];

"enrolment" means enrolment for the health insurance plan is sued by the commission under section 11 of the Act;

"enrolment period" means a period during which the Commis sion shall accept applications for enrolment without medical evidence of insurability.

(2) For the purposes of these rules in computing time both the first day and the last day of any period shall be included.

Initial enrolment period

3 The initial enrolment period shall be from 1st to 31st March, 1971.

Subsequent enrolment period

4 Enrolment periods subsequent to the initial enrolment period shall be from 1st to 14th September, 1971, and thereafter from 1st to 14th day of March and September in each succeeding year.

Enrolment outside enrolment period

5 (1) A person may apply for enrolment at any time if he pro duces medical evidence of insurability to the satisfaction of the Insur ance Officer.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a person may apply for enrolment without medical evidence of insurability outside an enrolment period if—

(a) being a person who has attained school-leaving age, he applies for enrolment within one month after attaining that age; or

(b) being a person who has ceased to be compulsorily in sured under Part III of the Act, he applies for enrolment within fourteen days after the date on which he ceased to be insured; or

(c) being an employer, he applies for enrolment in respect of a group contract.

Revocation

6 [omitted]

Commencement

7 [omitted]