Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00195:reg:69
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00195
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 69
Character Range: 78874–80220

69  Offences in relation to request forms—branded pathology request forms
 (1) For the purposes of subsection 23DP(3) of the Act, this section applies to a pathology request form that includes:
 (a) the registered name or trading name of:
 (i) if the form is provided by an approved pathology authority—the approved pathology authority; or
 (ii) if the form is provided by an approved pathology practitioner—an approved pathology authority that employs or engages the approved pathology practitioner; and
 (b) the location of one or more specimen collection centres.
 (2) The pathology request form must include a statement that informs a person in relation to whom a pathology service is requested that:
 (a) the request may be taken to a pathology provider of the person's choice; and
 (b) if the person's treating practitioner has specified an approved pathology practitioner on clinical grounds, a medicare benefit will be payable only if the service is conducted by that practitioner.
 (3) In this section:
pathology provider means:
 (a) a person who renders pathology services; or
 (b) a person who carries on the business of rendering pathology services; or
 (c) a person who employs, or engages under a contract of service, a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

Part 5—Special provisions relating to diagnostic imaging services