Civil penalty provisions

•   A requester must not ask for or accept a pathology or diagnostic imaging service - related benefit (other than a permitted benefit) from a provider or a person connected to a provider.

•   A provider must not offer or provide such a benefit to a requester or a person connected to a requester.

•   A provider must not make a pathology or diagnostic imaging service - related threat to a requester or a person connected to a requester.

•   If a requester or provider knows that a person connected to him or her has asked for, accepted, offered or provided such a benefit or made such a threat, the requester or provider can avoid contravening a civil penalty provision by reporting the person.

Persons who are connected to a requester or a provider

•   A person is connected to a requester or provider if the person has one of the personal or business relationships, set out in section   23DZZIJ, with the requester or provider.

Benefits

•   A benefit is prohibited if it is not a permitted benefit (see sections   23DZZIF and 23DZZIG).

Executive officers

•   An executive officer of a body corporate might contravene a civil penalty provision under this Part   if the body corporate contravenes a civil penalty provision under this Part.