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

9   After section 25

Insert:

25A Non-disclosure of protected genetic information in relation to contract of life insurance

A person is taken not to have made a misrepresentation in connection with a contract of life insurance merely because, before the contract was entered into, the person did not disclose protected genetic information about a person who, under the contract, became the life insured or one of the life insureds.