Medical Indemnity Act 2002

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

making payments to:

medical practitioners; or

medical indemnity insurers on behalf of medical practitioners;

making payments to:

medical practitioners; or

medical indemnity insurers on behalf of medical practitioners;

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

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

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

the amount of a subsidy; and

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

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

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

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

to medical practitioners working in particular areas of medical practice; or

for the purchase of particular kinds of medical indemnity.