Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653:section:18:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 18 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 36393–39010

18  Statement by claimant of past benefits
 (1) Subject to subsection (3), the claimant must give to the Chief Executive Medicare the statement required by the notice within the period of 28 days after being given the notice.
Note: Sections 137.1 and 137.2 of the Criminal Code create offences for providing false or misleading information or documents.
 (3) Subject to subsections (4) and (4A) and section 20, the Chief Executive Medicare may, by notice in writing, grant the claimant one or more extensions of the period.
 (4) The period cannot be extended if:
 (a) the notice in question under subsection 17(1) was given in relation to a claim for compensation in respect of which an amount of compensation under a judgment or settlement had already been fixed; and
 (b) the Chief Executive Medicare had not given a notice under section 21, in respect of the claim for compensation, during the 6 months preceding the day on which an amount of compensation was fixed under the judgment or settlement; and
 (c) an advance payment has not been made in respect of the compensation payable under the judgment or settlement.
 (4A) If an advance payment has been made under section 33B, the period cannot be extended:
 (a) if only one notice under section 17 has been given to the claimant in relation to the claim for compensation in question—beyond the period of 12 months after the claimant received that notice; or
 (b) in any other case—beyond the period of 12 months after the claimant received the last notice given to the claimant in relation to the claim for compensation.
 (5) If the claimant does not give to the Chief Executive Medicare a statement as required by this section, all the professional services specified in the notice under subsection 17(2) are taken for the purposes of this Act and the Charges Act to have been rendered in the course of treatment of, or as a result of, the injury the claimant claims to have suffered.
 (6) Subsection (5) does not operate, and is taken for the purposes of this Act and the Charges Act never to have operated, in relation to professional services specified in a notice under subsection 17(2) if the Chief Executive Medicare gives the claimant a notice under subsection (7).
 (7) The Chief Executive Medicare must give the claimant a notice for the purposes of subsection (6) if:
 (a) apart from subsection (6), subsection (5) would operate so that all the services specified in a notice under subsection 17(2) would be taken for the purposes of this Act and the Charges Act to have been rendered in the course of treatment of, or as a result of, the injury the