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.