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Medicare benefits

 (6) If, in making a determination under subsection (2) in relation to a practitioner, a Committee:
 (a) is satisfied that the practitioner engaged in a relevant offence or a relevant civil contravention under Division 2 or 3 of Part IIBA; and
 (b) determines that pathology services or diagnostic images were rendered as a result of the relevant offence or relevant civil contravention;
the Committee must, in its determination:
 (c) identify the services; and
 (d) if medicare benefit has been paid, or is payable, in respect of the services—determine that:
 (i) if the medicare benefit is payable to the practitioner, but has not been paid—the medicare benefit or a specified part of it ceases to be payable; or
 (ii) if the medicare benefit has been paid to the practitioner, or has been paid or is payable to a person other than the practitioner—the medicare benefit or a specified part of it be payable by the practitioner to the Commonwealth.

Remote area exemptions

 (7) If:
 (a) a person (the practitioner) is a medical practitioner who has been granted a remote area exemption that is in force under section 23DX or 23DXA; and
 (b) a Committee determines that the practitioner engaged in a relevant offence or a relevant civil contravention under Division 2 or 3 of Part IIBA in relation to diagnostic imaging services;
the Committee must include in its determination under subsection (2) an advice to the Minister as to whether the remote area exemption should be revoked, and its reasons for so advising.