Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00097:section:5:p39
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00097
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 39/56)
Character Range: 181364–184064

unless he or she has given notice to the private health insurer concerned stating that an audit is to be carried out.
 (4) The private health insurer must ensure that the Chief Executive Medicare has full and free access to all accounts, records, documents and papers of the private health insurer that are relevant to the audit.
 (5) The person carrying out the audit may make copies of, or take extracts from, such accounts, records, documents or papers for use in the audit.
 (6) Without limiting the powers of the Chief Executive Medicare under this section, the Chief Executive Medicare may, by notice given to a private health insurer, require the insurer to give to the Chief Executive Medicare, within a period specified in the notice beginning at the end of a financial year, a certificate in writing by a registered company auditor as to the correctness of the accounts and records of the insurer for that year to the extent that those accounts and records deal with matters mentioned in paragraphs (2)(a), (b) and (c).

279‑55  Chief Executive Medicare may require production of applications
 (1) The Chief Executive Medicare may, by notice given to a private health insurer, require the private health insurer:
 (a) to produce to the Chief Executive Medicare, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, applications retained under section 23‑45; or
 (b) to make copies of any such applications and give them to the Chief Executive Medicare within the period and in the manner specified in the notice.
 (2) A period specified under subsection (1) must not be less than one month.
 (3) A private health insurer is entitled to be paid by the Chief Executive Medicare reasonable compensation for complying with paragraph (1)(b).

Division 282—Recovery of amounts and other matters

Subdivision 282‑A—When and how payments can be recovered

282‑1  Recovery of payments
 (1) The following amounts are recoverable as debts due to the Commonwealth:
 (d) so much of a payment made under section 279‑15 or 279‑40 as relates to a *complying health insurance policy that covers a person who was:
 (i) a *participant in the premiums reduction scheme for the financial year concerned in respect of the policy; and
 (ii) not eligible to participate in that scheme in respect of that policy;
 (e) so much of a payment made under section 279‑15 or 279‑40 as relates to a premium for which a reduction was not allowable under section 23‑1;
 (f) 150% of so much of a payment made under section 279‑15 or 279‑40 as:
 (i) is not reflected in reductions in premiums payable under complying health insurance policies issued by the private health insurer concerned; or
 (ii) relates to a person