Chief Executive Medicare may request information
44 Chief Executive Medicare may request information
If the Chief Executive Medicare believes on reasonable grounds that a person is capable of giving information that is relevant to determining:
whether a subsidy is payable to a person under a scheme provided for under subsection 43(1); or
the amount of a subsidy that is payable to a person under a scheme provided for under subsection 43(1);
the Chief Executive Medicare may request the person to give the Chief Executive Medicare the information.
Failure to comply with the request is an offence (see section 45).
The request:
must be made in writing; and
must state what information must be given to the Chief Executive Medicare; and
may require the information to be verified by statutory declaration; and
must specify a day on or before which the information must be given; and
must contain a statement to the effect that a failure to comply with the request is an offence.
The day specified under paragraph (d) must be at least 28 days after the day on which the request is made.
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