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Security Act 1991 because:

             (i) the person, or the person's partner, did not satisfy the family allowance taxable income test (as provided for in the Social Security Act 1991); or

             (ii) the value of the person's assets (as provided for in the Social Security Act 1991) exceeds the indexed amount set out in paragraph 838(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991;";

    (b) by omitting from the definition of "child" in subsection (12) "allowance" and substituting "payment" (wherever occurring).

Medicare benefits in relation to R-type diagnostic imaging services

9. Section 16B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (11)(d) "1993" and substituting "1995".

Insertion of new section

10. After section 20B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Confirmation of referral to a consultant physician or specialist

  "20BA.(1) If:

    (a)     a practitioner refers a patient, in writing, to a consultant physician or a specialist; and

  (b)     the physician or specialist receives the referral; and

    (c)     the physician or specialist renders a specialist medical service to the patient as a consequence of the referral;

the physician or specialist must:

    (d)     retain the referral for the period of 18 months beginning on the day on which the service was rendered to the patient; and

    (e)     produce the referral, if asked to do so by the Managing Director, to a medical practitioner who is an officer of the Commission within 7 days after receiving the request.

"(2) The consultant physician or specialist must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with the Managing Director's request.

Penalty: $500.

  "(3) If:

    (a)     a consultant physician or specialist renders a specialist medical service to a patient; and

  (b)     either:

      (i) the service was rendered to the patient in an emergency situation without a referral; or

      (ii) the service was rendered as a consequence of a referral that was recorded on a hospital record and not given to the physician or specialist to retain on his or her records;

the Managing Director may request the physician or specialist to produce such information as is in his or her possession or control relating to whether the patient was so treated:

    (c)     to a medical practitioner who is an officer of the Commission; and

  (d)     within 7 days after receiving the Managing Director's request.

"(4) The consultant physician or specialist must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with the Managing Director's request.

Penalty: $500.

"(5) A medical practitioner who is an officer of the Commission may make and retain copies of, or take and retain extracts from, any referral or information produced under subsections (1) and (3).

"(6) If a referral retained by a physician or specialist, or information as to whether a service