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MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 2008 (NO. 22 OF 2008) - SECT 40

40 .         Professional indemnity insurance

        (1)         In this section —

        “professional indemnity insurance” means professional indemnity insurance that meets the minimum terms and conditions approved by the Board.

        (2)         Without limiting the Board’s powers under section 30, 32, 33, 34 or  38, the Board may by written notice impose both of the following conditions as a conditions of registration under section 30, 32, 33, 34 or  38 —

            (a)         that —

                  (i)         the medical practitioner must hold professional indemnity insurance; or

                  (ii)         the medical care provided by the medical practitioner must be covered by professional indemnity insurance; or

                  (iii)         the medical practitioner must be specified or referred to in professional indemnity insurance, whether by name or otherwise, as a person to whom the professional indemnity insurance extends even though the medical practitioner is not a party to the professional indemnity insurance;

            (b)         that the professional indemnity insurance must meet the minimum terms and conditions approved by the Board.

        (3)         A condition imposed under this section may apply indefinitely or for a period of time specified by the Board in the written notice of the decision given under section 151.

        (4)         The Board may, on its own motion or on the application of a person the subject of a condition imposed under this section, on reasonable grounds, revoke or vary the condition.



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