Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00534:section:4:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00534
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 4/7)
Character Range: 25604–28481

in connection with, the practice by the person of a medical profession.
Note: A single contract of insurance may provide medical indemnity cover for more than one person.
medical indemnity insurer means:
 (a) a body corporate authorised under section 12 of the Insurance Act 1973 that; or
 (b) a Lloyd's underwriter within the meaning of that Act who;
in carrying on insurance business in Australia, enters into contracts of insurance providing medical indemnity cover for other persons.
medical indemnity payment legislation means the Medical Indemnity (Run‑off Cover Support Payment) Act 2004.
medical practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a State or Territory law that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners.
Note: Subsection (6) gives this definition an extended meaning in Division 2B or 4 of Part 2.
medical profession includes a health care related vocation.
medicare program has the same meaning as in the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973.
member of an MDO has the meaning given by section 6.
midwife insurer means an insurer that is an eligible insurer within the meaning of the Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010.
midwife professional indemnity cover has the same meaning as in the Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010.
participating MDO means UMP.
payment made in relation to a claim has (other than in Divisions 2A and 2D of Part 2) the meaning given by subsections (3) and (4).
practitioner's contract limit, in relation to a person for whom a contract of insurance provides medical indemnity cover, means the maximum amount payable, in aggregate, by the insurer under the contract in relation to claims against the person.
Note 1: If the contract provides medical indemnity cover for more than one person, there must be a separate contract limit for each of those persons.
Note 2: For how this definition applies if the contract provides for deductibles, see section 8B.
Note 3: For how this definition interacts with the high cost claim indemnity scheme and the allied health high cost claim indemnity scheme, see sections 34D and 34ZZJ.
private medical practice means practice as a medical practitioner, other than:
 (a) practice consisting of treatment of public patients in a public 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 medical practitioners from liability relating to compensation claims (within the meaning of the Medical Indemnity (Prudential Supervision and Product Standards) Act 2003); or
 (c) practice conducted wholly outside both Australia and the external Territories; or
 (d) practice of a kind specified in