Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:106u:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 106U (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 557748–560438

(ii) in connection with the rendering or initiation of which the person under review or an associated person is stated in a report under section 106L (other than a report based on a finding made under subsection 106K(2) or 106KB(3)) to have engaged in inappropriate practice;
  that the person under review repay to the Commonwealth the whole or a part of the amount paid for that service;
 (ea) if the person under review is a midwife and there is in force in respect of the person an undertaking under section 21B—that the Minister's acceptance of the undertaking is to be taken to be revoked;
 (eb) if the person under review is a nurse practitioner and there is in force in respect of the person an undertaking under section 22A—that the Minister's acceptance of the undertaking is to be taken to be revoked;
 (f) if the person under review is a person in respect of whom a Part VII authority is in force and the service in connection with which the person is stated in a report under section 106L to have engaged in inappropriate practice involves prescribing or supplying a pharmaceutical benefit—that the Part VII authority be taken, for the purposes of the National Health Act 1953, to be suspended;
 (g) if the person under review is a practitioner—that the practitioner be disqualified, for a specified period starting when the determination takes effect, in respect of one or more of the following:
 (i) provision of specified services, or provision of services other than specified services;
 (ii) provision of services to a specified class of persons, or provision of services to persons other than persons included in a specified class of persons;
 (iii) provision of services within a specified location, or provision of services otherwise than in a specified location;
 (h) if the person under review is a practitioner—that the practitioner be fully disqualified for a specified period starting when the determination takes effect.
Note: Medicare benefits and dental benefits are not payable in respect of services rendered or initiated by, or on behalf of, disqualified practitioners (see section 19B of this Act in relation to medicare benefits, and section 20A of the Dental Benefits Act 2008 in relation to dental benefits).
 (1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(cb), it is to be assumed that all the medicare benefits paid for services in the class of services referred to in that paragraph were paid at the lowest rate that was payable for any of the services included in the class.
 (2A) A direction under paragraph (1)(f) must specify a period of suspension of up to 3 years, to start when the determination takes effect.
 (3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(g)