Continence Aids Payment Scheme 2020
12Payment procedure
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12 Payment procedure
(1) The Chief Executive Medicare must pay a CAPS payment, or an instalment of a CAPS payment, to which a participating person has become entitled under the Scheme to:
(a) the person; or
(b) if there is an authorised payment recipient for the person—the authorised payment recipient; or
(c) if the person has died, the person’s estate.
(2) The CAPS payment must be made:
(a) in one transaction unless the person has elected, in the approved
form, to receive the payment in two instalments (except where subsection 13(4) applies); and
(b) by way of electronic funds transfer to the bank account notified, in the approved form, to the Chief Executive Medicare.