Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1994

No. 328 1

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Health Insurance Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 16 September 1994.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

CARMEN LAWRENCE

Minister for Human Services and Health

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Health Insurance Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   New regulation 16A

2.1 After regulation 16, insert:

Records of pathology services to be kept by approved pathology authorities

“16A.

(1) For the purposes of subsection 23DKA (1) of the Act, an approved pathology authority must prepare and maintain, in accordance with subregulations (2) and (3), records of the pathology services rendered in an accredited pathology laboratory of which the authority is the proprietor.

“(2)

For each service rendered, the record in relation to the service must include a copy of a report of the service.

“(3)

The records must be kept in a manner that enables information to be retrieved from the records on the basis of:

• (a)

  the name of the person to whom the service was rendered; and

• (b)

  the date on which the service was rendered.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 September 1994.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135; 1976 Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No. 230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157, 251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231, 253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162; 1985 Nos. 36, 50, 95, 205 and 290; 1986 Nos. 19, 20, 87 and 326; 1987 Nos. 32, 163 and 166; 1988 No. 314; 1989 Nos. 6, 54, 117 and 293; 1990 No. 25; 1991 Nos. 82, 314, 365 and 441; 1992 Nos. 42, 111, 239, 335 and 431; 1993 Nos. 106, 130 and 154; 1994 Nos. 20, 27, 111, 137 and 138.