Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL INDEMNITY ACT 2002 - SECT 43

  (1)   The regulations may provide for one or more schemes for one or more of the following:

  (a)   making payments to:

  (i)   medical practitioners; or

  (ii)   medical indemnity insurers on behalf of medical practitioners;

    to help those medical practitioners meet the cost of purchasing medical indemnity (whether such costs are incurred by way of MDO membership subscriptions, insurance premiums or otherwise);

  (aa)   making payments to:

  (i)   medical practitioners; or

  (ii)   medical indemnity insurers on behalf of medical practitioners;

    to help those medical practitioners meet the cost of paying run - off cover support payments;

  (b)   making payments to medical indemnity insurers to help the medical indemnity insurers meet the cost of administering schemes provided for under paragraph   (a).

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), a scheme may make provision for:

  (a)   the conditions that must be satisfied for a subsidy to be payable; and

  (b)   the amount of a subsidy; and

  (c)   the conditions that must be complied with by persons to whom a subsidy is paid; and

  (d)   payments to medical indemnity insurers to reduce the costs of medical indemnity for medical practitioners; and

  (e)   any amount payable to the Commonwealth to be recovered as a debt.

  (3)   Without limiting paragraph   (2)(a), a scheme may provide that a subsidy is to be paid only:

  (a)   to medical practitioners working in particular areas of medical practice; or

  (b)   for the purchase of particular kinds of medical indemnity.