12AEligible run‑off claims—COVID‑19 human biosecurity emergency period

12A Eligible run‑off claims—COVID‑19 human biosecurity emergency period

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 34ZB(2)(f) of the Act, the class of persons to each of whom subregulation (2) applies is specified as persons to whom subsection 34ZB(2) of the Act applies. (2) Subject to subregulation (3), this subregulation applies to a person if subsection 34ZB(2) of the Act would apply to the person (disregarding this regulation) were it not for practice as a medical practitioner that the person begins to engage in: (a) on or after the commencement of this regulation; and (b) during a COVID‑19 human biosecurity emergency period. (3) If, 1 month after the end of the COVID‑19 human biosecurity emergency period, the person is still engaged in practice as a medical practitioner, subregulation (2) ceases to apply to the person at the end of that month. (4) A COVID‑19 human biosecurity emergency period is a human biosecurity emergency period (within the meaning of the Biosecurity Act 2015) in relation to which the declaration listed human disease (within the meaning of that Act) is human coronavirus with pandemic potential.