Medical Indemnity Amendment (High Cost Claim Threshold) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 18 May 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Medical Indemnity Regulations 2003

1  Name

  This instrument is the Medical Indemnity Amendment (High Cost Claim Threshold) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Medical Indemnity Act 2002.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Medical Indemnity Regulations 2003

1  Regulation 5

Omit “$300 000”, substitute “$500,000”.