PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1998 No. 121, 1998 - SECT 15.25 Reconsideration of decisions

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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1998 No. 121, 1998 - SECT 15.25

Reconsideration of decisions (1) A ^*health fund that has been given a notice under subsection 15 -20(1) may request the HIC to reconsider the decision.

(2) The request must:

(b) set out the reasons for the request; and

(c) be made on or before the first day of the month following the month during which the HIC gave the notice (or, if that day is not a business day, the first business day after that day).

(3) As soon as practicable after receiving the request, the HIC must:

(b) affirm, vary or revoke the decision.

(4) If the HIC revokes the decision, revocation is taken to be a decision that the amount in question is payable.

(5) If the HIC varies the decision, the decision has effect, and is taken always to have had effect, accordingly.

(6) The HIC must notify the ^*health fund stating its decision on the reconsideration together with a statement of its reasons for its decision.

(7) The HIC is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have revoked the decision if the HIC does not notify the ^*health fund of its decision on the reconsideration within 28 days after receiving the request.

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