Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 40AEE

             (1)  The amount of the Committee processing fee shall be:

                     (a)  if the relevant period does not exceed 4 hours--the prescribed amount; or

                     (b)  if the relevant period exceeds 4 hours:

                              (i)  in respect of each period of 4 hours included in the relevant period--the prescribed amount; and

                             (ii)  if the relevant period includes an additional period of less than 4 hours--the prescribed amount in respect of that additional period.

             (2)  The amount of the Committee processing fee shall not exceed $1,000 per day or, if the Minister has, by notice, fixed another amount, that other amount.

             (3)  Where a proprietor has, in a request for review, authorised the deduction of the Committee processing fee payable by the proprietor from any payment or payments of benefits under Part VA payable to the proprietor, the amount of the Committee processing fee may be deducted from any payment or payments of those benefits.

             (4)  The Committee processing fee may be recovered by the Commonwealth in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due and payable to the Commonwealth.

             (5)  A notice referred to in subsection (2) and in the definition of prescribed amount in subsection (6) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

             (6)  In this section:

"prescribed amount" means $500 or, if the Minister has, by notice, fixed another amount, that other amount.

"relevant period" means the period, or the aggregate of the periods, during which the Committee met to examine the matter that is the subject of the Committee's report.