Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 3GA

             (1)  The purpose of this section is to provide for registration of certain medical practitioners in approved placements.

             (2)  The Medicare Australia CEO is to establish and maintain a Register of Approved Placements.

             (3)  The Register may be maintained in any form, including as a computer record.

             (4)  A medical practitioner may apply to the Medicare Australia CEO for registration under this section.

             (5)  If a medical practitioner makes an application and:

                     (a)  a body specified in the regulations gives the Medicare Australia CEO written notice stating:

                              (i)  that the applicant is enrolled in, or undertaking, a course or program of a kind specified in the regulations; and

                             (ii)  the period over which, and the location in which, the applicant will be undertaking the course or program; or

                     (b)  the applicant is, in accordance with the regulations, eligible for registration under this section;

the Medicare Australia CEO must, within the required period under subsection (6), enter the applicant's name in the Register, together with the period in respect of which and the location in respect of which the applicant is registered.

             (6)  The required period for the purposes of subsection (5) is:

                     (a)  if a notice was given to the Medicare Australia CEO under paragraph (5)(a) in connection with the application:

                              (i)  the period of 14 days after the notice was received by the Medicare Australia CEO; or

                             (ii)  if the application was made after the notice was received--the period of 14 days after the application was received by the Medicare Australia CEO; or

                     (b)  if no such notice was given--the period of 14 days after the application was received by the Medicare Australia CEO.

             (7)  The Medicare Australia CEO must give the applicant written notice of the day on which the applicant's name is to be entered in the Register.

             (8)  The Medicare Australia CEO may give a body specified in regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (5)(a) information about the following matters, to the extent that those matters relate to persons about whom the body has given a notice under paragraph (5)(a):

                     (a)  the current state of the Register;

                     (b)  additions to the Register;

                     (c)  deletions from the Register.