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MIDWIFE PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2011
2010-2011
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Midwife Professional Indemnity
Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
No. , 2011
(Health and Ageing)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to
midwife professional indemnity, and for related
purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution)
Scheme Act 2010
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Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run-off Cover Support Payment) Act
2010
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Midwife Professional Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 No. , 2011 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to
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midwife professional indemnity, and for related
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purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Midwife Professional Indemnity
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Legislation Amendment Act 2011.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal
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Assent.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth
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Contribution) Scheme Act 2010
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1 After subsection 11(3)
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Insert:
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(3A) For the purposes of paragraph 11(3)(g), the Rules may specify one
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or more classes of practice that are taken not to be practice of a
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kind referred to in that paragraph and, without limiting the way in
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which a class may be specified, the class may be described by
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reference to the following:
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(a) the ownership or control (however described) of a
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corporation of which one or more eligible midwives are
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employees;
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(b) the true nature of the class of practice.
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(3B) To avoid doubt, Rules made for the purposes of subsection (3A)
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may be expressed to take effect from a date before the Rules are
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registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
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2 At the end of section 31
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Add:
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(6) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of private
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practice as a midwife in subsection (5), the Rules may specify one
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or more classes of practice that are taken not to be practice of a
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kind referred to in that paragraph and, without limiting the way in
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which a class may be specified, the class may be described by
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reference to the following:
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(a) the ownership or control (however described) of a
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corporation of which one or more eligible midwives are
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employees;
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(b) the true nature of the class of practice.
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(7) To avoid doubt, Rules made for the purposes of subsection (6) may
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be expressed to take effect from a date before the Rules are
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registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run-off Cover Support
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Payment) Act 2010
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3 Subsection 7(3) (formula)
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Repeal the formula, substitute:
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Applicable rate
Net premium
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Applicable rate
×
+
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4 Application of amendment made by item 3
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The amendment made by item 3 applies to each contribution year
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starting on or after 1 July 2010.
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