Health Insurance (Pathology Services) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2541

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Health Insurance (Pathology Services) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 28 October 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

NEAL BLEWETT

Minister of State for Health

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 February 1984.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations “Principal Regulations” means the Health Insurance (Pathology Services) Regulations.

Interpretation

3. Regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “provider number” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘provider number’, in relation to a practitioner, an approved pathology practitioner or a participating optometrist, has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Regulations;”.

 

Request for pathology services

4. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (3) (a) (i) “and” (last occurring);

(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (3) (a) (ii) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(ii) his relevant address; and

(iii) the provider number that relates to his place of practice at that address; and”;

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (3) (b) (i) “and”;

(d) by omitting sub-paragraph (3) (b) (ii) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(ii) the relevant address of the approved pathology practitioner; and

(iii) the provider number that relates to the place of practice of the approved pathology practitioner at that address.”;

(e) by inserting after sub-regulation (3) the following sub-regulation:

“(3a) A reference in sub-regulation (3) to the relevant address of a practitioner or an approved pathology practitioner shall be read as a reference to—

(a) where the instrument referred to in that sub-regulation relates to a request made at a place of practice of the practitioner or approved pathology practitioner—the address of that place; or

(b) where the instrument does not relate to a request made at such a place—the address of any place of practice of the practitioner or approved pathology practitioner.”;

(f) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (a) (ii) “the relevant place of business” and substituting “a place of practice”;

(g) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (b) (ii) “the relevant place of business” and substituting “a place of practice”;

(h) by omitting from paragraph (5) (a) “and the initials of the given names,” and substituting “first Christian or given name and initials of any subsequent Christian or given name”;

(j) by omitting paragraph (5) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b) whether the person is, or was at the time that the request was made—

(i) a hospital patient in a recognized hospital;

(ii) a private patient in a recognized hospital; or

(iii) a private patient in a private hospital;”;

(k) by omitting paragraph (5) (d) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(d) the service to which the instrument relates by means of a description sufficient to identify the item that relates to that service and the number of that item;

(1) by omitting from paragraph (6) (a) “and the address or provider number,” and substituting “address and provider number”; and

(m) by omitting from paragraph (6) (b) “and the address or provider number,” and substituting “address and provider number”.

Service of notice under paragraph 16a (3) (b) of the Act

5. Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (b) (i) “the approved pathology practitioner” and substituting “that authority”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1977 No. 127 as amended by 1979 No. 66.