Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL INDEMNITY ACT 2002 - SECT 34J

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a qualifying claim certificate is in force in relation to a claim; and

  (b)   a person becomes aware that the information provided to the Chief Executive Medicare in connection with the application for the certificate was incorrect or incomplete, or is no longer correct or complete; and

  (c)   the person is:

  (i)   the person who applied for the certificate; or

  (ii)   another person who has applied for a payment of exceptional claims indemnity, or for a payment under regulations made for the purposes of section   34X (exceptional claims payments), in relation to the claim;

the person must notify the Chief Executive Medicare of the respect in which the information was incorrect or incomplete, or is no longer correct or complete.

Note:   Failure to notify is an offence (see section   46).

  (2)   The notification must:

  (a)   be made in writing; and

  (b)   be given to the Chief Executive Medicare within 28 days after the person becomes aware as mentioned in subsection   (1).