{"id":"F2009L03735","name":"Health Insurance Act 1973 - Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X (QAA No. 3/2009)","slug":"health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":141591,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2009L03735-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Health Insurance Act 1973 - Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X (QAA No. 3/2009)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA\n\n HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973\n\n \n\n DECLARATION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITY\n\n UNDER SECTION 124X\n\n QAA No. 3/2009\n\n \n\n \n\nI, Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health and Ageing, under Section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act):\n\n \n\n1. DECLARE the Activity described in the Schedule to this declaration (the Activity) to be a  quality assurance activity to which Part VC of the Act applies being satisfied in relation to the Activity that:\n\n\n(i)            the organisation engaging in the Activity is authorised to do so by an association of health professionals; and\n\n(ii)         it is in the public interest that Part VC of the Act applies to the Activity having regard to the criteria prescribed in regulations 23C to 23G (inclusive) of the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n                   Nicola Roxon………………………………………………………\n\n  \n\n  Minister for Health and Ageing\n\n \n\n \n\n  Dated: 28 /   9  /2009 \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n# SCHEDULE\n\n QAA No. 3/2009\n\nDECLARED QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITY TO WHICH\n\nPART VC OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 APPLIES\n\n![](image.001.png) \n\nItem       Description of Quality Assurance Activity\n\n________________________________________________________________________________\n\n \n\n \n\n1. Organisation engaging in activity: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)\n\n \n\nTitle:     Rural Craft Group Audit\n\n \n\nDescription:    This activity involves a craft group audit system which can be utilised to measure performance through regular peer review activities and re-define benchmarks set for surgical care in rural and remote areas.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2525},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration maintains a narrow, targeted scope consistent with section 124X, applying only to the specific Rural Craft Group Audit conducted by RACS. It has not expanded beyond the original statutory purpose of declaring individual quality assurance activities."},"complexity_factors":["Single-page declaration with only one scheduled item","External references to statutory provisions (s 124X, Part VC) and regulations (23C-23G) without reproducing complex conditional text","Simple binary declaration structure based on ministerial satisfaction of two statutory criteria","No defined terms, exceptions, or nested conditional logic within the instrument itself"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration designates the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Rural Craft Group Audit as a quality assurance activity under the Health Insurance Act 1973 (Part VC), giving legal confidentiality protection to information shared in the audit.  \n\nIt protects rural and remote surgeons and their patients by creating a safe space for frank peer review, benchmarking and improvement of surgical standards without fear that audited material will be used in litigation or disciplinary proceedings."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009","history":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-3-2009/documents"}}