Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No.1) 2024

I, Jacob Grooby, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following principles.

Dated   24 January 2024

Jacob Grooby

A/g Assistant Secretary
Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division
Health Resourcing Group
Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name..............................................1

2 Commencement........................................1

3 Authority............................................1

4 Schedules............................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Principles 2017 2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories—Approval) Amendment (Relevant Standards) Principles (No.1) 2024.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 23DNA(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories – Approval) Principles 2017

1 Schedule 1 (table item 11)

2 Schedule 1 (table item 14)

3 Schedule 1 (table item 22)

4 Schedule 1 (Note at the end of the table)

The documents mentioned could in 2024 be viewed on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s pathology accreditation standards webpage.