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Request forms and confirmation forms

  8. Section 23DK of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

    "(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to the approved pathology practitioner in relation to a particular pathology service if:

        (a) at the time the service was rendered, he or she was employed by an approved pathology authority; and

        (b) he or she is no longer employed by the approved pathology authority; and

        (c) before ceasing to be so employed, he or she notified the Managing Director of the Commission in writing of the place where the written request, or written confirmation of the request, relating to the service is stored and the approved pathology authority who is retaining it;

     but the approved pathology authority shall retain the written request, or written confirmation of the request, until the end of the period referred to in subsection (1).";

    (b) by omitting from paragraph (2)(a) "subsection" and substituting "section";

  (c) by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

     "(2A) Subsection (2) does not apply to the relevant pathologist in relation to a request if:

        (a) at the time the request is made, he or she was employed by an approved pathology authority; and

        (b) he or she is no longer employed by the approved pathology authority; and

        (c) before ceasing to be so employed, he or she notified the Managing Director of the Commission in writing of the place where the written request, or written confirmation of the request, relating to the service is stored and the approved pathology authority who is retaining it;

     but the approved pathology authority shall retain the written request, or written confirmation of the request, until the end of the period referred to in subsection (2).";

     (d) by inserting in subsection (3) "or an approved pathology authority" after "approved pathology practitioner" (wherever occurring);

     (e) by adding at the end of subsection (3) "or by the approved pathology authority under subsection (1A) or (2A)".

Restricted meaning of approved pathology authority

9. Section 23DNAA of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraphs:

     "(b) an authority (a 'public authority') that is a corporation established by a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of an internal Territory; or

     (c) an undertaking that is partly owned or partly operated by a State, a Territory or a public authority.".

Determination of circumstances in which additional licensed collection centres may operate

10. Section 23DNC of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsections:

"(3A) The Minister may review a determination made under subsection (1), but the review may only take place after:

    (a) if the determination has never