Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:23dnl
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23DNL
Character Range: 307099–307931

23DNL  Offence in relation to unapproved specimen collection centres
  A person who operates a specimen collection centre that is not an approved collection centre must cause to be taken such steps as are reasonable in all the circumstances to ensure that, before a pathology specimen is collected at the centre from a person in relation to whom a pathology service is to be rendered:
 (a) that person or, if that person is in the care of another person, that other person; and
 (b) the approved pathology practitioner by or on behalf of whom the pathology service is to be rendered;
are informed that, if the approved pathology practitioner were to use the specimen in rendering a pathology service, a medicare benefit would not be payable in respect of the pathology service.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.

Division 5—Miscellaneous