Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL INDEMNITY ACT 2002 - SECT 47A

  (1)   This section applies if section   34ZV applies to an invoice that a medical indemnity insurer gives to a person.

  (2)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is a medical indemnity insurer; and

  (b)   the person gives such an invoice to another person; and

  (c)   the invoice does not state the matters required by section   34ZV.

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (3)   An offence against subsection   (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (4)   To avoid doubt, subsection   4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 applies to any offence against this section committed by a body corporate, as if an offence against that provision could be committed by a natural person.

  (5)   Subsection   (4) does not affect the meaning of any other offence against this Act.