Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1985 No. 167 of 1985 - SECT 34

34. Sections 19B and 19C of the Principal Act are repealed and the following
section is substituted: Medicare benefit not payable in respect of services
rendered by disqualified practitioners

"19B. (1) In this section, 'practitioner' has the same meaning as in section
124B.

"(2) A medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service if
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   (a)  at the time when the service was rendered, the person who rendered
the service, or the practitioner on whose behalf the service was
rendered, was a practitioner in relation to whom a determination
under paragraph 124F (2) (e) was in effect; or

   (b)  at the time when the service was rendered, the person who rendered
the service, or the practitioner on whose behalf the service was
rendered, was a practitioner in relation to whom a determination
under paragraph 124F (2) (d) was in effect in respect of that
service.".