30MRI and MRA services — eligible provider

30 MRI and MRA services — eligible provider

(1) For rule 29, an eligible provider is a specialist in diagnostic radiology who satisfies the Commission that:

(a) he or she is a participant in the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists’ Quality and Accreditation Program; and

(b) the equipment he or she proposes to use for providing services of the kind mentioned in Group I5 in the diagnostic imaging services table (the proposed equipment) is eligible equipment in accordance with rule 31 or 31A.

(2) If the equipment the eligible provider proposes to use is eligible equipment in accordance with rule 31, the Commission must have been given a statutory declaration:

(a) stating the matters mentioned in paragraphs (1) (a) and (b); and

(b) specifying the location of the proposed equipment; and

(c) specifying the kinds of diagnostic imaging procedures offered at that location; and

(d) if the proposed equipment has been installed at that location and is equipment to which subrule 31 (3) or (4) applies, stating the date that it was installed (the installation date); and

(e) if paragraph (d) applies, and the installation date was 12 May 1998 — stating the time at which the equipment was installed.

(3) If paragraph (2) (d) applies, and the equipment was not installed before 7.30 pm on 12 May 1998, Eastern Standard Time, the specialist must have given the Commission, with the statutory declaration, a copy of the contract for the purchase or lease of the equipment.

(4) The Commission may request a specialist to:

(a) give the Commission documents to support statements made in the statutory declaration; and

(b) answer questions put to the specialist by the Commission about those statements.

Note The documents may include the contract for purchase or lease of the proposed equipment, if not already given to the Commission under subrule (3).