Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:19ab:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19AB (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 162704–165529

19AB  Medicare benefits not payable in respect of services rendered by certain overseas trained doctors etc.
 (1) Subject to subsection (3), a medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service rendered by a person who is an overseas trained doctor or who is a foreign graduate of an accredited medical school, unless:
 (a) the person first became a registered medical practitioner before 1 January 1997; or
 (b) all of the following conditions are satisfied:
 (i) the person was, at a time before 1 January 1997, an overseas trained doctor;
 (ii) before 1 January 1997, the Australian Medical Council received an application from the person to undertake examinations, successful 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.
 (2) Subject to subsection (3), a medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service rendered on behalf of a person who is an overseas trained doctor or who is a foreign graduate of an accredited medical school, unless:
 (a) the person first became a registered medical practitioner before 1 January 1997; or
 (b) all of the following conditions are satisfied:
 (i) the person was, at a time before 1 January 1997, an overseas trained doctor;
 (ii) before 1 January 1997, the Australian Medical Council received an application from the person to undertake examinations, successful 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