Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No.2) 2021 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No. 2) 2021

I, Michael Ryan, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following instrument.

Dated   15 December 2021

Michael Ryan

Acting 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.2) 2021.

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
1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	1 January 2022
2.  Schedule 1, Part 1	1 January 2022
3.   Schedule 1, Part 2	1 February 2022

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Amendments

Part 1 – Amendments commencing 1 January 2022

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories – Approval) Principles 2017

1Schedule 1 (table Item 12)

Repeal the item, substitute:

12 Requirements Procedures related to the Collection, Processing, Storage and Issue of Human Haemopoietic Progenitor Cells (Sixth Edition 2021) 2021

2  Schedule 1 (at the end of the table )

23 Add: Requirements for Point of Care Testing (Second Edition 2021) 2021

Part 2 – Amendments commencing 1 February 2022

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories – Approval) Principles 2017

3  Schedule 1 (at the end of the table)

24 Add: Requirements for the Use of Digital Images as an Alternative to Direct Microscopy (First Edition 2021) 2021