Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 124FE

  (1)   Where:

  (a)   a Committee is established under subsection   124E(1) in relation to a practitioner; and

  (b)   the Committee has reasonable grounds to believe that a person who:

  (i)   employs or employed the practitioner; or

  (ii)   is or was an officer of a body corporate that employs or employed the person;

    may have caused or permitted the practitioner or any other person to engage in a relevant offence or relevant civil contravention under Division   2 or 3 of Part   IIBA that is specified in the notice given to the Chairperson concerned under subsection   124D(2);

the Committee may determine, in writing, that the Committee should consider whether the person caused or permitted the practitioner or other person to engage in the offence or contravention.

  (2)   Where:

  (a)   a Committee is established under subsection   124E(1) in relation to a body corporate that employs or employed a practitioner; and

  (b)   the Committee has reasonable grounds to believe that a person who is or was an officer of the body corporate may have caused or permitted the practitioner to engage in a relevant offence or relevant civil contravention under Division   2 or 3 of Part   IIBA that is specified in the notice given to the Chairperson concerned under subsection   124D(2);

the Committee may determine, in writing, that the Committee should consider whether the officer caused or permitted the practitioner to engage in the offence or contravention.

  (3)   Where a Committee makes a determination under subsection   (1) or (2) in relation to a person, the Committee must give the person written notice of the determination.