NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM ACT 2011 - SECT 158 Decisions without meetings

NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM ACT 2011 - SECT 158

  (1)   The Pricing Authority is taken to have made a decision at a meeting if:

  (a)   without meeting, a majority of the members entitled to vote on the proposed decision indicate agreement with the decision; and

  (b)   that agreement is indicated in accordance with the method determined by the Pricing Authority under subsection   (2); and

  (c)   all the members were informed of the proposed decision, or reasonable efforts were made to inform all the members of the proposed decision.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply unless the Pricing Authority:

  (a)   has determined that it may make decisions of that kind without meeting; and

  (b)   has determined the method by which members are to indicate agreement with proposed decisions.

  (3)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(a), a member is not entitled to vote on a proposed decision if the member would not have been entitled to vote on that proposal if the matter had been considered at a meeting of the Pricing Authority.