HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 23DD Period of effect of approved pathology practitioner undertaking

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 23DD

  (1)   Where a person gives an undertaking under subsection   23DC(1) and the Minister accepts the undertaking, the undertaking:

  (a)   comes into force on the day specified in the notice given under subsection   23DC(10) in respect of the undertaking; and

  (b)   subject to subsection   (3), ceases to be in force upon:

  (i)   the termination of the undertaking under section   23DE;

  (ii)   the revocation of the Minister's acceptance of the undertaking in accordance with a determination by a Medicare Participation Review Committee under section   124FB;

  (iii)   in a case where the person was a medical practitioner at the time when the Minister accepted the undertaking--a person's ceasing to be a medical practitioner; or

  (iv)   the expiration of the period determined by the Minister, pursuant to paragraph   23DC(1)(c) or 23DO(2)(b), as the period for which the undertaking is to have effect;

    whichever first occurs.

  (3)   Where:

  (a)   a person gives an undertaking (in this subsection referred to as the first undertaking ) under subsection   23DC(1) and the first undertaking is accepted by the Minister;

  (b)   while the first undertaking is in force, the person gives another undertaking (in this subsection referred to as the second undertaking ) under subsection   23DC(1); and

  (c)   the period referred to in subparagraph   (1)(b)(iv) in relation to the first undertaking expires without the Minister having given the person notice under subsection   23DC(9) in relation to the second undertaking;

subsection   (1) applies in relation to the first undertaking as if the period referred to in subparagraph   (1)(b)(iv) were the period commencing on the day on which the first undertaking comes into force and ending 14 days after the day on which the Minister gives notice to the person under subsection   23DC(9) in relation to the second undertaking.