Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:170a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 170A
Character Range: 1712160–1714055

170A  Medical expenses
 (1) The Commonwealth may, subject to this section, pay to an applicant for a review an amount to cover the medical expenses incurred by him or her in respect of relevant documentary medical evidence submitted to the Board for the purposes of the review.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any relevant documentary medical evidence obtained before the day on which a copy or notice of the decision referred to in section 135 that is subject to review was served on the applicant.
 (3) The applicant is not to be paid:
 (a) if the applicant has submitted to the Board for the purposes of the review relevant documentary medical evidence relating to only one medical condition—more than the prescribed amount for medical expenses; or
 (b) if the applicant has submitted to the Board for the purposes of the review relevant documentary medical evidence relating to more than one medical condition—more than the prescribed amount for the medical expenses incurred in respect of the evidence relating to any one of those conditions.
 (4) An amount is not payable in respect of medical expenses unless:
 (a) the person who has incurred the expenses; or
 (b) any person approved by that person or by the Commission;
applies in writing to the Commission for payment under subsection (5).
 (5) The application for payment must:
 (a) be in accordance with a form approved by the Commission; and
 (b) be made:
 (i) if the relevant documentary medical evidence was submitted to the Board before 1 January 1995—before 1 April 1995; or
 (ii) in any other case—within 3 months after the relevant documentary medical evidence was submitted to the Board; and
 (c) be lodged at an office of the Department in Australia in accordance with section 5T.
 (6) An application for payment lodged in accordance with section 5T is taken to have been made on a day determined under that section.