Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Amendment (No. 1) Rules 2025 (Cth)

Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Amendment (No. 1) Rules 2025

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Rules.

Dated 17 February 2025

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

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2......... Commencement.............................................................................................................. 1

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4......... Schedules........................................................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Rules 2020 2

1Name

This instrument is the Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Amendment (No. 1) Rules 2025.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2025.	1 July 2025

1. Note:

   This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

2. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under section 90 of the Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Rules 2020

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Section 5

Insert:

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Safety and Quality Guidelines for Privately Practising Midwives means the Safety and Quality Guidelines for Privately Practising Midwives developed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, as in force from time to time.

Note: The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Safety and Quality Guidelines for Privately Practising Midwives can be viewed on the Nursing and Midwifery Board website (

2 At the end of Part 1

Add:

8Eligible entity

For the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of eligible entity in subsection 5(1) of the Act, each of the following persons are specified:

(a) My Midwives Pty Ltd ACN 144 509 777;

(b) Waminda South Coast Women’s Health and Wellbeing Aboriginal Corporation ICN 853.

8AIntrapartum care

For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of intrapartum care in subsection 5(1) of the Act, the requirements set out in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Safety and Quality Guidelines for Privately Practising Midwives