HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 124T Chairperson to abolish Committee

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 124T

  (1)   Where:

  (a)   a Committee has been established under subsection   124E(1) in relation to the conviction of a practitioner, or the making of a pecuniary penalty order against a practitioner; and

  (b)   an appeal, or an application for extension of the time for instituting an appeal, against the conviction or order is pending;

the Chairperson shall abolish the Committee.

  (2)   Where:

  (a)   a determination made by a Committee has taken effect; and

  (b)   in the case of a determination of a kind referred to in paragraph   124F(2)(b) or (c), subparagraph   124FB(1)(e)(ii) or (iii) or 124FC(1)(e)(ii) or (iii) or paragraph   124FF(2)(b) or (c)--the person concerned has been counselled or reprimanded, as the case may be;

the Chairperson shall abolish the Committee.

  (3)   Where, after a Committee that has made a determination has been abolished under subsection   (2), the Administrative Appeals Tribunal or a court decides that the Committee should reconsider the determination, the Chairperson shall re - establish the Committee or, if it is not reasonably practicable to do so, establish another Committee, in accordance with section   124E, and the Committee as so re - established or established, as the case may be, shall proceed to make a new determination in relation to the practitioner in accordance with this Part.