Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (105 of 2019)
Schedule 6 Allied health professionals
Medical Indemnity Act 2002
41 Subsection 37B(3)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(3) If the Chief Executive Medicare has received, but not yet decided:
(a) an application (the certificate application ) for the issue of a qualifying claim certificate or a qualifying allied health claim certificate in relation to a claim; and
(b) an application (the indemnity application ) for an exceptional claims indemnity or allied health exceptional claims indemnity in relation to the same claim;
the Chief Executive Medicare does not have to decide the indemnity application until the Chief Executive Medicare has decided the certificate application.