Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (105 of 2019)

Schedule 4   Instruments

Part 1   Amendments

Medical Indemnity Act 2002

124   Subsection 43(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) The regulations may provide for one or more schemes for one or more of the following:

(a) making payments to:

(i) medical practitioners; or

(ii) medical indemnity insurers on behalf of medical practitioners;

to help those medical practitioners meet the cost of purchasing medical indemnity (whether such costs are incurred by way of MDO membership subscriptions, insurance premiums or otherwise);

(aa) making payments to:

(i) medical practitioners; or

(ii) medical indemnity insurers on behalf of medical practitioners;

to help those medical practitioners meet the cost of paying run-off cover support payments;

(b) making payments to medical indemnity insurers to help the medical indemnity insurers meet the cost of administering schemes provided for under paragraph (a).