23DSCRegistration of participants in approved program

#### 23DSC Registration of participants in approved program (1) The purpose of this section is to provide for the registration of medical practitioners who are participating, or are expected to participate, in a program approved under section 23DSB. (2) The Chief Executive Medicare is to establish and maintain a Register of Participating Practitioners (the Register). (3) The Register may be maintained in any form, including the form of a computer record. (4) If: (a) a medical practitioner was, immediately before the commencement of this Division, the holder of an exemption under subsection 16B(11); or (b) a remote area exemption granted to a medical practitioner under section 26DX was in force immediately before commencement of this Division; or (c) after the commencement of this Division a relevant medical college gives notice in writing to the Chief Executive Medicare stating that a specified medical practitioner (other than a practitioner referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)) is enrolled and participating in a program approved under section 23DSB; the Chief Executive Medicare must cause to be entered in the Register a statement that the practitioner is registered as a participating practitioner and the date of commencement of the registration. (5) The date to be entered in the Register as the date of commencement of the registration of the practitioner is: (a) in the case of a practitioner referred to in paragraph 4(a) or (b)—the date of commencement of this section; or (b) in the case of a practitioner referred to in paragraph 4(c)—the date on which the notice under that paragraph was received by the Chief Executive Medicare. (6) The Chief Executive Medicare must give to the practitioner a notice in writing stating that the practitioner is registered as a participating practitioner and specifying the date of commencement of the registration. (7) The Chief Executive Medicare may at any time give to a relevant medical college information as to the practitioners who are registered as participating practitioners and the respective dates of commencement of their registration.