Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A medical practitioner, or a person acting on behalf of the medical practitioner, commits an offence if:
(a) he or she renders to another person a professional service in respect of which a medicare benefit is not payable because of section 19AA, 19AB, 19ABA or 19ABC; and
(b) before the service is rendered, such steps as are reasonable in all the circumstances have not been taken to inform:
(i) the other person; or
(ii) if the other person is in the care of someone else--that person;
that a medicare benefit would not be payable.
(2) An offence under subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .