Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 99YBA

  (1)   The regulations may make provision in relation to services provided by the Commonwealth in relation to the exercise of a power by the Minister under any of the following:

  (a)   section   9B;

  (b)   a provision in Part   VII (other than a provision in that Part prescribed by the regulations).

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may make provision in relation to the following:

  (a)   the making of applications for those services;

  (b)   prescribing fees for those services;

  (c)   the time that prescribed fees are due and payable (including extending the time for payment of the fees);

  (d)   the manner of payment of prescribed fees (including payment by instalments);

  (e)   the payment of penalties in respect of late payment of prescribed fees;

  (f)   exemptions from prescribed fees;

  (g)   the waiver, remission or refund of prescribed fees;

  (h)   the refusal to provide those services until a prescribed fee is paid;

  (i)   the review of decisions made under the regulations.

  (3)   A prescribed fee must not be such as to amount to taxation.

  (4)   A prescribed fee is payable to the Commonwealth.

  (5)   A prescribed fee that is due and payable may be recovered by the Commonwealth as a debt due to the Commonwealth.