29Practitioner practising wholly outside Australia and external Territories is not eligible medical practitioner

29 Practitioner practising wholly outside Australia and external Territories is not eligible medical practitioner

(1) A medical practitioner is not an eligible medical practitioner for a premium year (or any period in it) if the practitioner has practised outside Australia and the external Territories for at least 6 months of that year (counting as practice any leave taken in the ordinary course of practice). (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), practice in circumstances specified in rules made for the purposes of paragraph 34E(1)(c) of the Act is taken to be practice in Australia.

Note: Paragraph 34E(1)(c) of the Act has the effect that incidents that are connected with medical practice and occur outside Australia are treated like incidents occurring in Australia (for the purpose of certifying claims relating to the incidents as qualifying claims for the purposes of the exceptional claims indemnity scheme).