Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:19db
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19DB
Character Range: 215099–216084

19DB  Offence where approval of premises as accredited pathology laboratory has been revoked
  Where:
 (a) the proprietor, or each of the proprietors, of an accredited pathology laboratory is an approved pathology authority; and
 (b) the approval of the premises as an accredited pathology laboratory has been revoked;
the proprietor or proprietors must cause to be taken such steps as are reasonable in all the circumstances to ensure that, before a pathology service is rendered in the laboratory:
 (c) the practitioner, participating midwife or participating nurse practitioner who has as a patient the person in relation to whom the pathology service is to be rendered; and
 (d) the person in relation to whom the pathology service is to be rendered or, if that person is in the care of another person, that other person;
are informed that a Medicare benefit would not be payable in respect of the pathology service if it were rendered in the laboratory.
Penalty: 1 penalty unit.