15ARequest for review

15A Request for review

(1) A request to the Minister for a review referred to in subsection 14(1): (a) is to be made only on the appropriate authorised form; and (b) is to be made within 42 days after the day on which notice of the Secretary’s decision is served on the proprietor of the nursing home. (2) The request is to be taken not to have been made if the proprietor does not, in the request, authorise the deduction of: (a) the lodgment fee of $500 or, if the Minister has, by notice, fixed another amount, that other amount; and (b) the Committee processing fee; from any amount or amounts payable to the proprietor under an agreement entered into under section 15 or under Part VA of the National Health Act 1953. (3) Where a proprietor has, in a request, authorised the deduction of the lodgment fee payable by the proprietor from any such amount or amounts, the amount of the lodgment fee may be deducted accordingly. (4) A notice under paragraph (2)(a) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.