Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to health, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Act 2010.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act 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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
| 2. Schedule 1 | 1 July 2010. | 1 July 2010 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973
1 Subsection 3(1) (subparagraph (d)(ii) of the definition of professional service)
Omit “to whom the treating practitioner has made a request for the service”, substitute “who received a request for the service made by the treating practitioner”.
2 Subsection 16A(3)
Omit “to the approved pathology practitioner”.
3 Paragraph 16A(3)(b)
Omit “to whom the treating practitioner has made a request for that service”, substitute “who received a request for the service made by the treating practitioner”.
4 Subsection 16A(4)
Omit “to or by an approved pathology practitioner for a pathology service”.
5 Subsection 16A(5)
Omit “to or by an approved pathology practitioner for a pathology service”.
6 Subsection 16A(5AA)
Omit “to the rendering pathologist”.
7 Paragraph 16A(5AA)(b)
Omit “to whom the treating practitioner has made a request for that service”, substitute “who received a request for the service made by the treating practitioner”.
8 Subparagraph 16A(5A)(a)(i)
Omit “to the approved pathology practitioner”.
9 Subparagraph 16A(5A)(a)(ii)
Omit “to whom the treating practitioner made the request”, substitute “who received a request for the service made by the treating practitioner”.
10 Subsection 16A(8)
Repeal the subsection.
11 Paragraph 23DK(2)(a)
Omit “to an approved pathology practitioner (in this section referred to as the relevant pathologist)”.
12 Paragraph 23DK(2)(c)
Omit “relevant pathologist”, substitute “approved pathology practitioner who received the request (the relevant pathologist)”.
13 Subsection 23DK(5)
Omit “to an approved pathology practitioner”.
14 Subsection 23DK(11)
Repeal the subsection.