Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800:reg:18:p34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 18 (pt 34/42)
Character Range: 241989–244872

the Act, by offsetting moneys for any excess amounts against any later claims for payment by that person or body; or
Note: Section 317 provides, in effect, that where amounts have been overpaid, the Commission may, if the person agrees, offset money owed against later payments.

(d) by a combination of any of these methods of recovery.

12.6.3 Nothing in this principle is to be taken to restrict any other right or action for recovery of moneys.
Transitional Provisions

(1) MRCA Treatment Principles (2013 No. MRCC 53)

      (a) any arrangement entered into, or taken to have been entered into, by the Commission or the Department (on behalf of the Commission) with a health provider, under the revoked MRCA Treatment Principles, being an arrangement that is in force immediately before the commencement of these Principles  is taken to have been entered into under these Principles.

      (b) any action taken (e.g. issue of a notice, grant of approval, giving of a receipt), and any document produced in the course of that action, by the Commission, the Department (on behalf of the Commission), a health provider or an entitled person, under the revoked MRCA Treatment Principles, being action or a document that is in effect or in force immediately before the commencement of these Principles  is deemed, respectively, to have been taken or produced under these Principles.

      (c) a Scheme (eg Local Medical Officer Scheme, Local Dental Officer Scheme) prepared by the Repatriation Commission under the Treatment Principles under section 90 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, that is in force immediately before the commencement of these Principles and is referred to in these Principles,  is taken to have been made by the Commission under these Principles.

      (d) a person who was receiving care under a Community Aged Care Package or Extended Aged Care at Home Package under the revoked MRCA Treatment Principles immediately before the commencement of these Principles, is, on the commencement of these Principles, entitled to a continuation of that care as if it is home care under these Principles.

      (e) a requirement in a provision under the Principles for a person to hold a qualification (current qualification), being a different qualification required by the provision in the revoked MRCA Treatment Principles (former qualification) in the state the revoked MRCA Treatment Principles existed immediately before the commencement of these Principles under 1.1.4, is satisfied where a person holds a former qualification.

      Note: under the revoked MRCA Treatment Principles an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker needed to have undertaken an "aboriginal health care course" at an institution recognised by the Department of Health and Ageing but under these Principles the institution must be recognised by