Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00623:section:31:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00623
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 31 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 63777–65628

Chief Executive Medicare, that the person is pregnant, has given birth or is recovering from a pregnancy, as the case requires; and
 (c) the person has ceased all practice as an eligible midwife:
 (i) because she is pregnant; or
 (ii) in order to care for one or more children to whom she has given birth; or
 (iii) in order to recover from the pregnancy; and
 (d) any other requirements specified in the Rules have been met.
 (4) A person is taken, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(d), to have ceased the person's practice as an eligible midwife because of permanent disability if and only if:
 (a) the person has incurred an injury, or suffers from an illness, that is permanent, or is likely to be permanent; and
 (b) as a result of the injury or illness, the person can no longer practise the profession of midwifery; and
 (c) another person who is a medical practitioner has certified, in the form approved by the Chief Executive Medicare, that the person:
 (i) has incurred an injury, or suffers from an illness, that is permanent, or is likely to be permanent; and
 (ii) can no longer practice the profession of midwifery; and
 (d) the person has permanently ceased all practice as an eligible midwife.
 (5) In this section:
private practice as an eligible midwife means practice as an eligible midwife other than:
 (a) practice consisting of treatment of public patients of a hospital; or
 (b) practice for which:
 (i) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
 (ii) a local governing body; or
 (iii) an authority established under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
  indemnifies eligible midwives from liability relating to compensation; or
 (c) practice conducted outside both Australia and the external Territories; or
 (d) practice of a kind specified in the Rules.

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