28Practitioner with no or low private practice income for premium period is not eligible medical practitioner

28 Practitioner with no or low private practice income for premium period is not eligible medical practitioner

Nil private practice income (1) A medical practitioner is not an eligible medical practitioner for a premium period if the practitioner’s private practice income for the period is nil. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if: (a) the practitioner’s only practice in the premium period is the provision of health services in the course of engagement by an organisation whose primary function is to provide health services to the public at no charge; and (b) the contract of insurance between the practitioner and a medical indemnity insurer providing professional indemnity cover for the practitioner provides retroactive cover, run‑off cover or both only in relation to incidents in the course of private medical practice (before the premium period) from which the practitioner derived income. Low private practice income (3) A medical practitioner is not an eligible medical practitioner for a premium period if: (a) in the period the practitioner’s practice is partly private medical practice but mainly treatment of public patients in one or more public hospitals; and (b) the practitioner’s private practice income for the premium year containing the period is less than $1,000; and (c) the practitioner is not indemnified in relation to the practitioner’s private medical practice in the period under an agreement, with an organisation that operates one or more of the public hospitals, that allows the practitioner to carry on the private medical practice in the period.