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the National Health Act 1953 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.

5. Pathologist‑determinable services
     Pursuant to section 4BA of the Act, the following classes of pathology services are pathologist‑determinable services:
     (a) a pathology service that:
 (i) is mentioned in an item in the pathology services table; and
 (ii) is rendered, by or on behalf of, an approved pathology practitioner to a patient of that practitioner;
         (b) a pathology service that:
 (i) is rendered, by or on behalf of, an approved pathology practitioner; and
 (ii) the approved pathology practitioner considers to be necessary, on the basis of information learned from another service:
 (A) that was rendered to the patient by, or on behalf of, that practitioner; and
 (B) the request for which complied with paragraph 16A (4) (a) or (b) of the Act; and

 (iii) is an item in the pathology services table that is mentioned in column 1 in the following table and, in relation to which, the pathology service originally requested was an item in the pathology services table that is mentioned in column 2 of the following table for that item of the table:

Item  Column 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Column 2

      Pathology service                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Originally requested service