Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653:section:21:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00653
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 21 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 45824–48443

of liability for the injury that is apportioned to the compensable person by the judgment or settlement.
 (7) If a notice contains a statement of a kind referred to in subsection (5), it must also contain a statement to the effect that, if:
 (a) the notice is taken to be a notice of charge under section 24; and
 (b) the amount of compensation is fixed by a judgment that specifies an amount (the past expenses component), being a portion of the amount of compensation, to be a component for either or both of the following:
 (i) the medical expenses already incurred relating to the injury;
 (ii) the expenses in respect of nursing home care, residential care or home care already incurred relating to the injury;
the past expenses component is taken to be the amount specified in the notice as payable to the Commonwealth.
 (8) Without limiting the matters that the notice may include, it may include a statement to the effect that if a reimbursement arrangement is made in respect of the claim, the notice is taken to be a notice of charge under section 25, given by the Chief Executive Medicare on:
 (a) if the reimbursement arrangement was made before the Chief Executive Medicare gives the notice to the notifiable person—the day on which the Chief Executive Medicare gives the notice to the notifiable person; or
 (b) in any other case—the day on which the reimbursement arrangement is made.
 (9) The Chief Executive Medicare must give a copy of any such notice to the claimant.
 (10) The Chief Executive Medicare may give more than one notice to the notifiable person in respect of the same claim for compensation.
 (11) Subject to subsection (13), the claimant or the notifiable person may request the Chief Executive Medicare to give the notifiable person a notice.
 (12) The Chief Executive Medicare must comply with such a request:
 (a) if, at the time the request was made, the claimant had been given a notice under section 17 with which he or she had not yet complied but the period for compliance had not expired—within 28 days after he or she complies or within 28 days after the period for compliance expires, whichever happens first; or
 (b) if the Chief Executive Medicare gives to the claimant a notice under section 17 within 28 days after the request was made—within 28 days after the claimant complies with the notice, or within 28 days after the period for compliance expires, whichever happens first; or
 (c) in any other case—within 28 days after the request was made.
 (13) Subsection (11) does not apply if:
 (a) the Chief Executive Medicare had given the notifiable person a notice within