Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00118:reg:5:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00118
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 6400–8581

meaning as in the Requirements for Supervision in the Clinical Governance of Medical Pathology Laboratories (Seventh Edition 2023).
special adviser means a person appointed by the Minister to advise the Minister on the standards of pathology services rendered at premises.
State includes a Territory.
State accreditation means accreditation under an accreditation system under the written law of a State or under a State Government administrative arrangement to provide accreditation, however described, for provision of pathology services.
undertaking means an undertaking given under section 23DC or section 23DF of the Act.
 (3) Subject to subsection (4), the Minister may approve an organisation as an independent body in relation to a category or categories of laboratory for the purposes of these Principles.
 (4) In making a decision under subsection (3) the Minister must take into account that:
 (a) ordinarily an organisation other than NATA should be approved only if there is a high level of confidence that the organisation is a suitable organisation to act as an independent body for the purposes of these Principles; and
 (b) the objects of these Principles should not be negatively affected by competitive pressures on any independent body.
 (5) A reference in these Principles to the revocation of accreditation by an independent body or to revocation of State accreditation includes, without limitation:
 (a) action taken by the independent body;
 (b) action taken in a State accreditation process;
 (c) the operation of rules of the independent body;
 (d) the operation of rules in the State accreditation process;
  that has the effect of revoking, cancelling, suspending or rendering inoperative the accreditation, or an aspect of the accreditation, no matter what term is used to describe that action.
 (6) In these Principles a reference to an application for approval under section 23DN of the Act includes without limitation an application for a variation of an approval:
 (a) by adding a kind of service not covered by the approval; or
 (b) by changing the category covered by the approval; or
 (c) by extending the period of the approval.

Part 2—General