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Medicare; or
    (b) a departmental employee authorised by the Chief Executive Medicare; or
    (c)  the Minister.

     (2) This undertaking does not extend to undertaking to permit non-consensual entry into premises and search and seizure, which must be authorised under legislation.

10 Information about conduct of business
    (1)               An applicant must undertake to give to an officer of the Chief Executive Medicare, if the officer makes a written request, information about the conduct of the business as a billing agent or about any particular transaction.
(2) For compliance with the undertaking, the information must be given:
(a) without undue delay; and
(b) in a form convenient for use by the officer.

11 Keeping of trust account
An applicant must undertake:
(a)               to maintain, for the period for which approval is granted, the trust account mentioned in section 3 of the Schedule of this Instrument; and
(b)              to pay into the trust account all amounts received by it as billing agent; and
(c)               to conduct the trust account in accordance with subsections 3(2) and 3(3) of the Schedule of this Instrument; and
(d)              to comply with subregulation 7.8.02(2) of the Corporations Regulations 2001, as if that regulation were not subject to subregulations (3), (4) and (5), in the way that money in the account is invested as if the applicant were a financial services licensee under the Corporations Act 2001.

12 Claims lodged by registered organisations
    An applicant must undertake not to appoint another person to lodge claims for Medicare benefits on behalf of the applicant unless:
         (a)                the other person is a registered organisation; and
         (b)               the terms of the appointment provide that the registered organisation must pay to the applicant all amounts received on behalf of the applicant within 7 days after receipt.

13 Patient's statement of account
    An applicant must undertake to give to each patient affected by a medical practitioner's assignment a statement setting out, for each episode in which the practitioner provides professional services to the patient:
         (a) the item number for the item that relates to each of the services; and
(b) the amount charged for each service; and
         (c) the amount payable by the Chief Executive Medicare for each service; and
         (d) the amount payable by the private health insurer, of which the patient is an insured person, for each service; and
(e) the amount, if any, payable by the patient for each service.

14 Payment to an assigning practitioner - 90 day period
    An applicant must undertake to pay to an assigning medical practitioner an amount equal to a payment received that, apart from the assignment, would be owed to the medical practitioner, within 90 days after the Chief Executive Medicare makes the payment.