Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 3GC

             (1)  The Minister must, by instrument in writing, establish a Medical Training Review Panel.

             (2)  The functions of the Panel are:

                     (a)  to compile such information relating to:

                              (i)  courses and programs of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subparagraph 3GA(5)(a)(i); and

                             (ii)  medical practitioners who are enrolled in or undertaking, or who are available to enrol in or undertake, those courses and programs;

                            as the Minister determines in writing; and

                     (b)  to publish the information in such a manner as the Minister determines in writing; and

                     (c)  to establish and maintain a register of employment opportunities for medical practitioners, in such a form and containing such information as the Minister determines; and

                     (d)  to compile information in relation to each medical college on the number of people who sit, and the number of people who pass, each examination held by the medical college for people seeking:

                              (i)  admission to advanced training; or

                             (ii)  admission to Fellowship of the college.

             (3)  The Minister may make written determinations relating to:

                     (a)  appointment of persons as members of the Panel; and

                     (b)  nomination of persons for such appointment.

             (4)  The Panel must, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, prepare and give to the Minister a report on its operations during the financial year that ended on that day.

          (4A)  The report prepared under subsection (4) must include the information compiled by the Panel under paragraph (2)(d) during the year concerned.

             (5)  The Minister must cause a copy of each report to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the Minister receives the report.

             (6)  Determinations under this section are disallowable instruments for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

          (6A)  In this section, medical college means:

                     (a)  an organisation declared by the regulations to be a professional organisation in relation to a particular specialty for the purposes of section 3D; or

                     (b)  the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.