New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH CARE LIABILITY ACT 2001 - SECT 19

19 Medical practitioners must be covered by approved professional indemnity insurance

(1) A person is not entitled to practise as a medical practitioner unless the person is covered by approved professional indemnity insurance.

(2) Accordingly, the Medical Board:

(a) must not register a person as a medical practitioner unless the Medical Board is satisfied that the person will, while practising as a medical practitioner, be covered by approved professional indemnity insurance, and

(b) may cancel the registration of a person as a medical practitioner (or suspend a person from practising medicine) if the Medical Board is satisfied that the person is not covered by approved professional indemnity insurance while the person is practising as a medical practitioner.

(3) Practising as a medical practitioner without being covered by approved professional indemnity insurance is, for the purposes of the Medical Practice Act 1992 , unsatisfactory professional conduct.

(4) This section does not apply to or in respect of a medical practitioner:

(a) who is an employee of a public health organisation (but only to the extent that the medical practitioner practises as such an employee), or

(b) who is exempt under the regulations from the requirement to be covered by approved professional indemnity insurance.

(5) This section has effect despite any provision of the Medical Practice Act 1992 .