Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No. 1) 2022 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No. 1) 2022

I, Renaye Lucchese, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following principles.

Dated   14 April 2022

Renaye Lucchese

Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Health Resourcing Group
Department of Health

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments   2

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Principles 2017             2

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No.1) 2022.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 23DNA(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories – Approval) Principles 2017

1 Schedule 1 (table Item 21)

Repeal the item, substitute:

21 Requirements for the Retention of Laboratory Records and Diagnostic Material (Ninth Edition 2022) 2022

2 Schedule 1 (note at the end of the table)

Repeal the note, substitute:

The documents mentioned could in 2022 be viewed on NPAAC’s website, maintained by the Department of Health or the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s pathology webpage.