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Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 3)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 2382

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 5 August 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 3).

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on 9 August 2004.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 65174

insert in Group P1

65200

Characterisation of gene rearrangement by nucleic acid amplification in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with laboratory evidence of:

(a) acute myeloid leukaemia; or

(b) acute promyelocytic leukaemia; or

(d) chronic myeloid leukaemia;

each test to a maximum of 4 tests in a 12 month period

235.00

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 256, as amended by 2003 Nos. 295, 300 and 360; 2004 Nos. 66 and 67.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 August 2004.