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.