Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010 3
Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run‑off Cover Support Payment) Act 2010 4
Midwife Professional Indemnity Legislation Amendment Act 2011
No. 47, 2011
An Act to amend the law relating to midwife professional indemnity, and for related purposes
[Assented to 27 June 2011]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Midwife Professional Indemnity Legislation Amendment Act 2011.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010
1 After subsection 11(3)
Insert:
(3A) For the purposes of paragraph 11(3)(g), the Rules may specify one or more classes of practice that are taken not to be practice of a kind referred to in that paragraph and, without limiting the way in which a class may be specified, the class may be described by reference to the following:
(a) the ownership or control (however described) of a corporation of which one or more eligible midwives are employees;
(b) the true nature of the class of practice.
(3B) To avoid doubt, Rules made for the purposes of subsection (3A) may be expressed to take effect from a date before the Rules are registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
2 At the end of section 31
Add:
(6) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of private practice as a midwife in subsection (5), the Rules may specify one or more classes of practice that are taken not to be practice of a kind referred to in that paragraph and, without limiting the way in which a class may be specified, the class may be described by reference to the following:
(a) the ownership or control (however described) of a corporation of which one or more eligible midwives are employees;
(b) the true nature of the class of practice.
(7) To avoid doubt, Rules made for the purposes of subsection (6) may be expressed to take effect from a date before the Rules are registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run‑off Cover Support Payment) Act 2010
3 Subsection 7(3) (formula)
Repeal the formula, substitute:
4 Application of amendment made by item 3
The amendment made by item 3 applies to each contribution year starting on or after 1 July 2010.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 3 March 2011
Senate on 11 May 2011]