Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL INDEMNITY ACT 2002 - SECT 47A

             (1)  This section applies if section 34ZV applies to an invoice that a medical indemnity insurer gives to a person.

             (2)  A person commits an offence if:

                     (a)  the person is a medical indemnity insurer; and

                     (b)  the person gives such an invoice to another person; and

                     (c)  the invoice does not state the matters required by section 34ZV.

Penalty:  30 penalty units.

             (3)  An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .

             (4)  To avoid doubt, subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 applies to any offence against this section committed by a body corporate, as if an offence against that provision could be committed by a natural person.

             (5)  Subsection (4) does not affect the meaning of any other offence against this Act.