Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 99YBB

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person applies for a service referred to in subsection   99YBA(1) in relation to the exercise of a power by the Minister; and

  (b)   either:

  (i)   a fee prescribed under paragraph   99YBA(2)(b) is payable by the person for the service; or

  (ii)   a fee prescribed under paragraph   99YBA(2)(b) is payable by the person for another service referred to in subsection   99YBA(1) that the person has applied for;

then, without limiting any power the Minister may otherwise have under section   9B or this Part, the Minister may refuse to exercise the power until the prescribed fee is paid.

  (2)   A refusal referred to in subsection   (1) is not a legislative instrument.