Medical Indemnity Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1
Statutory Rules 2003 No. 2502
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Medical Indemnity Act 2002.
Dated 9 October 2003
P. M. JEFFERY
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
TONY ABBOTT
Minister for Health and Ageing

1	Name of Regulations
		These Regulations are the Medical Indemnity Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1).
2	Commencement
		These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 15 August 2003.
3	Amendment of Medical Indemnity Regulations 2003
		Schedule 1 amends the Medical Indemnity Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1	Amendment
(regulation 3)
  
[1]	Regulation 8
substitute
8	IBNR indemnity contribution exemption (persons who are 65 or more)
		For subsection 52 (4) of the Act, a person is exempt from IBNR indemnity contribution for a contribution year if:
	(a)	the person turned 65 before the beginning of the contribution year or will turn 65 in that year; and
	(b)	at least 15 days before the payment day for the contribution year, the person gives to the HIC:
	(i)	a statutory declaration stating the date the person turned, or will turn, 65; or
	(ii)	a certified copy of the person’s birth certificate.
8A	IBNR indemnity contribution exemption (persons with a disability)
		For subsection 52 (4) of the Act, a person is exempt from IBNR indemnity contribution for a contribution year if:
	(a)	the person has at the beginning of the contribution year, or develops during that year, a physical, intellectual, psychiatric or sensory impairment; and
	(b)	the person’s impairment is of 20 points or more under the Impairment Tables in Schedule 1B to the Social Security Act 1991; and
	(c)	the HIC is satisfied that the person has a continuing inability to work in a medical profession because of the person’s impairment.
Note for paragraph (c)   Medical profession includes a health care related vocation. Health care related vocation means a health care related vocation that a person must be registered under a State or Territory law to practise. See subsection 4 (1) of the Act.
8B	IBNR indemnity contribution exemption (persons who die on or after imposition day)
		For subsection 52 (4) of the Act, a person is exempt from IBNR indemnity contribution for a contribution year if:
	(a)	the person dies on or after the imposition day in the contribution year; and
	(b)	as soon as practicable after the person’s death, the person’s legal personal representative gives to the HIC:
	(i)	a statutory declaration, signed by the person’s legal personal representative, stating that the person has died and giving the date of the person’s death; or
	(ii)	a certified copy of the person’s death certificate.
8C	When IBNR indemnity contribution must be paid
		For paragraph (b) of item 1 of the table in section 61 of the Act, 1 February 2004 is specified as the payment day for IBNR indemnity contribution for the contribution year beginning on 1 July 2003.

Notes
1.	These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 208.
2.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 October 2003.