Bill entitled an Act to amend the Voluntary Health Insurance Act 1957, the Health Insurance Act 1994, the Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 1996, the Health Insurance Amendment) Act 2001, to confer additional functions on the Voluntary Health Insurance Board, with a view to better enabling the board to apply for the grant to it of an authorisation to carry on the business of non-life insurance, to empower the board to form and establish or acquire subsidiaries to perform certain functions of the board, to specify the borrowing powers of the board and such subsidiaries, and to provide for related matters.