Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For the purposes of subsection 23DP(3) of the Act, this section applies to a pathology request form that includes:
(a) the registered name or trading name of:
(i) if the form is provided by an approved pathology authority--the approved pathology authority; or
(ii) if the form is provided by an approved pathology practitioner--an approved pathology authority that employs or engages the approved pathology practitioner; and
(b) the location of one or more specimen collection centres.
(2) The pathology request form must include a statement that informs a person in relation to whom a pathology service is requested that:
(a) the request may be taken to a pathology provider of the person's choice; and
(b) if the person's treating practitioner has specified an approved pathology practitioner on clinical grounds, a medicare benefit will be payable only if the service is conducted by that practitioner.
(3) In this section:
"pathology provider" means:
(a) a person who renders pathology services; or
(b) a person who carries on the business of rendering pathology services; or
(c) a person who employs, or engages under a contract of service, a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).