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COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1990 No. 141 of 1990 - SECT 17

Medicare benefit not payable in respect of services rendered by disqualified practitioners etc.
17. Section 19B of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:

"(1) In this section: `partly disqualified' means disqualified (other than
fully disqualified), or taken to be disqualified (other than fully
disqualified), under a determination under Part VB; `practitioner' has the
same meaning as in section 124B.";

   (b)  by omitting paragraphs (2) (a) and (b) and substituting the following
        paragraphs:
  "(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:

   (i)  in relation to whom a determination under paragraph 124F (2) (e) or
        124FF (2) (d) that the practitioner be fully disqualified was in
        effect; or

   (ii) who was taken to be partly disqualified because a determination under
        paragraph 124FF (2) (e) or (f) in relation to another person 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:

   (i)  in relation to whom a determination under paragraph 124F (2) (d) or
        124FF (2) (d) that the practitioner be partly disqualified was in
        effect in respect of that service; or

   (ii) who was taken to be partly disqualified because a determination under
        paragraph 124FF (2) (e) or (f) in relation to another person was in
        effect in respect of that service.". 


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