Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Professions Registration Act 2005 - SECT 13

Professional indemnity insurance

13. Professional indemnity insurance



(1) Without limiting a responsible board's powers under this Part, it may
impose a condition on the grant or renewal of registration-

   (a)  that-

   (i)  the health practitioner must hold professional indemnity insurance; or

   (ii) the regulated health services provided by the health practitioner must
        be covered by professional indemnity insurance; or

   (iii) the health practitioner must be specified or referred to in
        professional indemnity insurance, whether by name or otherwise, as a
        person to whom the professional indemnity insurance extends even
        though the health practitioner is not a party to the professional
        indemnity insurance; and

   (b)  that the professional indemnity insurance must meet the minimum terms
        and conditions set out in the guidelines of the responsible board.

(2) If the applicant's arrangements satisfy the minimum terms and conditions
set out in the guidelines of the responsible board, the responsible board must
not-

   (a)  refuse to grant registration on the basis that the health
        practitioner's arrangements for professional indemnity insurance are
        in the form of insurance or a discretionary indemnity; or

   (b)  impose a condition on the registration of a health practitioner to
        require that the health practitioner's arrangements for professional
        indemnity insurance must be in the form of insurance or a
        discretionary indemnity.