32Amendments made by the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2016 Measures No. 2) Regulation 2016

#### 32 Amendments made by the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2016 Measures No. 2) Regulation 2016 Despite the repeal and substitution of regulation 14A of these Regulations by Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2016 Measures No. 2) Regulation 2016, that regulation, as in force immediately before 1 January 2017, continues to apply until the end of 30 June 2018 in relation to a person who is a midwife if, before 1 January 2017, the person: (a) is registered as a midwife in Australia with no restrictions in relation to practice; and (b) has at least 3 years full time experience as a midwife; and (c) is recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Board as being competent to provide pregnancy, labour, birth and post‑natal care to women and their infants; and (d) has successfully completed a professional practice review program approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Board for midwives working in all areas of midwifery care; and (e) has, for each year that he or she has been registered as a midwife, undertaken 20 hours of continuing professional development in midwifery care; and (f) has successfully completed, or has provided a formal undertaking to the Nursing and Midwifery Board that he or she will complete within 18 months of recognition as an eligible midwife: (i) a program of study determined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board to develop midwives’ knowledge and skills in prescribing medicines relevant to a midwife; or (ii) a program, recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Board, that is substantially equivalent to such a program of study.