Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:19ab:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19AB (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 165270–168051

completion of which would ordinarily enable the person to become a registered medical practitioner;
 (iii) on the day the application was so received, the person was eligible to undertake those examinations under the rules of the Australian Medical Council as in force on the day the application was so received; or
 (d) both of the following conditions are satisfied:
 (i) the person first became a registered medical practitioner before the commencement of this subparagraph;
 (ii) the service was rendered after the end of the period of 10 years beginning when the person first became a registered medical practitioner; or
 (e) both of the following conditions are satisfied:
 (i) the person was a permanent Australian at the time when the person first became a registered medical practitioner;
 (ii) the service was rendered after the end of the period of 10 years beginning when the person first became a registered medical practitioner; or
 (f) both of the following conditions are satisfied:
 (i) the person became a permanent Australian after the time when the person first became a registered medical practitioner;
 (ii) the service was rendered after the end of the period of 10 years beginning when the person first became a registered medical practitioner.
 (3) The Minister may, by writing, grant an exemption from the operation of subsections (1) and (2) in respect of a person or a class of persons.
 (4) An exemption under subsection (3) may be made subject to such conditions (if any) as the Minister thinks fit.
 (4A) In exercising powers under subsection (3) or (4), the Minister must comply with guidelines determined by the Minister under subsection (4B).
 (4B) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, determine guidelines that apply to the exercise of powers under subsections (3) and (4).
 (4C) Without limiting subsection (4B), the guidelines may require that a person must have qualifications of a specified kind in order to qualify for an exemption.
 (5) If a person to whom an exemption under subsection (3) applies breaches a condition of the exemption, the exemption ceases to apply to the person at all times during which the person is in breach.
 (6) Despite anything contained in subsection 488(1) of the Migration Act 1958, the Secretary of the Immigration Department may, for the purpose of:
 (a) the granting of an exemption under subsection (3); or
 (b) assisting the Minister or the Chief Executive Medicare to ascertain whether a condition of such an exemption has been breached;
disclose to the Minister or to an officer of the Department administered by the Minister, or to a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973), information about the conditions on which a person has entered or remains