Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Act 2026 (35 of 2026)

Schedule 1   Limiting the use of genetic information by life insurers

Part 2   Other amendments

Insurance Contracts Act 1984

7   After subsection 20B(5)

Insert:

(5A) If the relevant contract of insurance is a contract of life insurance, the insured is taken not to have made a misrepresentation merely because the insured did not disclose protected genetic information about a life insured.