Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00617:reg:9:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00617
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 2157–5388

9  Pathology laboratory screening tests
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history

       Part 1—Preliminary

       1  Name

         This instrument is the National Cancer Screening Register Rules 2017.

       2  Commencement

        (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1                          Column 2          Column 3
Provisions                        Commencement      Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument  1 December 2017.  1 December 2017

            Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

        (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

       3  Authority

         This instrument is made under the National Cancer Screening Register Act 2016.

       4  Definitions

            Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
               (a) approved form;
               (b) individual healthcare provider;
               (c) screening;
               (d) screening test.

         In this instrument:

       accredited pathology laboratory has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

       Act means the National Cancer Screening Register Act 2016.

       approved pathology practitioner has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

       healthcare identifier has the same meaning as in the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010.

       HPV is short for human papillomavirus.

       medicare number has the same meaning as in Part VII of the National Health Act 1953.

       pathology service has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

       provider number has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.

       5  Pathology services carried out on behalf of approved pathology practitioners

         For the purposes of this instrument, a pathology service is not taken to be carried out on behalf of an approved pathology practitioner if the service is not taken to be rendered on behalf of the approved pathology practitioner for the purposes of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (see section 3AA of that Act).

       Part 2—Requirement to notify—cervical cancer screening

       6  Simplified outline of this Part

       For the purposes of subsection 13(1) of the Act, this Part prescribes types of cervical cancer screening tests and, for each of those types of screening tests:
              (a) the information that must be notified to the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer; and
              (b) the individual healthcare provider who must notify the information; and
              (c) the time by which the information must be notified.

       7  Purposes of