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

Schedule 5   Universal cover

Medical Indemnity Act 2002

2   Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

AFCA has the meaning given by section 761A of the Corporations Act 2001.

Health Practitioner Regulation National Law means the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld).

private medical practice means practice as a medical practitioner, other than:

(a) practice consisting of treatment of public patients in a public hospital; or

(b) practice for which:

(i) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

(ii) a local governing body; or

(iii) an authority established under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

indemnifies medical practitioners from liability relating to compensation claims (within the meaning of the Medical Indemnity (Prudential Supervision and Product Standards) Act 2003); or

(c) practice conducted wholly outside both Australia and the external Territories; or

(d) practice of a kind specified in the rules.

professional indemnity cover : a contract of insurance with a medical practitioner provides professional indemnity cover if it provides medical indemnity cover for the practitioner in relation to the practitioner's private medical practice.

risk surcharge has the meaning given by subsection 52C(1).