Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:23dk:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23DK (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 284200–286909

is retaining it;
but the approved pathology authority shall retain the written request, or written confirmation of the request, until the end of the period referred to in subsection (2).
 (3) An approved pathology practitioner or an approved pathology authority must, if requested to do so by the Chief Executive Medicare, produce to a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973), as soon as practicable and in any case before the end of the day after the day on which the request is made by the Chief Executive Medicare, a written request or a written confirmation of a kind required to be retained by the approved pathology practitioner or an approved pathology authority under subsection (1) or (2) or by the approved pathology authority under subsection (1A) or (2A).
 (4) A Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973) may make and retain copies of or take and retain extracts from, any request or confirmation produced to the employee pursuant to subsection (3).
 (5) Where:
 (a) a practitioner, a participating midwife or a participating nurse practitioner makes a request for a pathology service;
 (b) medicare benefit may become payable in respect of the service; and
 (c) the request is made otherwise than in writing;
the practitioner, participating midwife or participating nurse practitioner shall confirm the request in writing within the period of 14 days commencing on the day on which the request is made.
 (6) Where:
 (a) an approved pathology practitioner (in this subsection referred to as the referring pathologist) makes a request for a pathology service to another approved pathology practitioner;
 (b) medicare benefit may become payable in respect of the service; and
 (c) the request is made otherwise than in writing;
the referring pathologist shall confirm the request in writing within the period of 14 days commencing on the day on which the request is made.
 (7) For the purposes of this section, where:
 (a) a written request or a written confirmation of a request has been recorded on film or on any other medium approved, in writing, by the Minister from time to time; or
 (b) in accordance with an approval, in writing, of the Minister, a request or confirmation (other than a written request or a written confirmation) has been recorded on a tape, disc, film or other medium;
for the purposes of storage and subsequent retrieval when required:
 (c) the retention of the record so made shall be deemed to be a retention of the request or the confirmation, as the case may be; and
 (d) the production, or the reproduction, of the record so made shall be deemed to be a production of the request