Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:124e
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 124E
Character Range: 615543–617222

124E  Chairperson to establish Medicare Participation Review Committee
 (1) Except where subsection (2) or (5) applies, where:
 (a) a Chairperson receives a notice under section 124D in relation to a conviction or pecuniary penalty order; and
 (b) an appeal, or an application for an extension of the time for instituting an appeal, against the conviction or order, is not pending;
the Chairperson must establish a Medicare Participation Review Committee.
 (2) Where:
 (a) a Chairperson receives a notice under section 124D in relation to a practitioner; and
 (b) a Medicare Participation Review Committee has already been established under subsection (1) in relation to the practitioner; and
 (c) the Committee has yet to make a determination in relation to the practitioner;
the Chairperson must, as soon as practicable, bring the notice to the attention of the Committee.
 (3) Subject to subsection (5), upon receiving a notice under subsection 23DL(4) in relation to an approved pathology practitioner or an approved pathology authority, a Chairperson must establish a Medicare Participation Review Committee.
 (5) Where a Chairperson who is given a notice under section 124D or subsection 23DL(4) has a direct or indirect interest (whether pecuniary or otherwise) in a matter that is about to be the subject of proceedings before a Committee that the Chairperson would, but for this subsection, be required to establish under subsection (1) or (3):
 (a) the Chairperson must immediately inform the Minister of that interest; and
 (b) the Chairperson must not establish the Committee; and
 (c) the Minister must give another notice in the same terms to another Chairperson.