Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL INDEMNITY ACT 2002 - SECT 44

  (1)   If the Chief Executive Medicare believes on reasonable grounds that a person is capable of giving information that is relevant to determining:

  (a)   whether a subsidy is payable to a person under a scheme provided for under subsection   43(1); or

  (b)   the amount of a subsidy that is payable to a person under a scheme provided for under subsection   43(1);

the Chief Executive Medicare may request the person to give the Chief Executive Medicare the information.

Note:   Failure to comply with the request is an offence (see section   45).

  (2)   The request:

  (a)   must be made in writing; and

  (b)   must state what information must be given to the Chief Executive Medicare; and

  (c)   may require the information to be verified by statutory declaration; and

  (d)   must specify a day on or before which the information must be given; and

  (e)   must contain a statement to the effect that a failure to comply with the request is an offence.

The day specified under paragraph   (d) must be at least 28 days after the day on which the request is made.