Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories — Approval) Amendment Principles 2015 (No. 1)
Health Insurance Act 1973
I, Catherine Rule, delegate of the Minister for Health, make these Principles under subsection 23DNA (1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Catherine Rule
First Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Department of Health
1 Name of Principles
These Principles are the Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories – Approval) Amendment Principles 2015 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
These Principles commence on 1 August 2015.
3 Authority
These Principles are made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
4 Schedule
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Amendment
Health Insurance (Accredited Pathology Laboratories ― Approval) Principles 2002
substitute
Item | Material | Publication year |
1 | Requirements for Medical Pathology Services (First Edition 2013) | 2013 |
2 | Requirements for Procedures Related to the Collection, Processing, Storage and Issue of Human Haemopoietic Progenitor Cells (Fifth Edition 2015) | 2015 |
3 | Requirements for the Facilities and Operation of Mortuaries (Third Edition 2013) | 2013 |
4 | Requirements for Enrolment and Participation in External Quality Assessment (Fifth Edition 2013) | 2013 |
5 | Guidelines for Approved Pathology Collection Centres (Requirements for Medical Pathology Specimen Collection) (Third Edition 2013) | 2013 |
6 | Requirements for the Performance of Anatomical Pathology Cut-Up (Fourth Edition 2013) | 2013 |
7 | Requirements for Medical Testing of Human Nucleic Acids (Second Edition 2013) | 2013 |
8 | Performance Measures for Australian Laboratories Reporting Cervical Cytology (Third Edition 2015) | 2015 |
9 | Requirements for Gynaecological (Cervical) Cytology (Second Edition 2014) | 2014 |
10 | Requirements for the Supervision of Pathology Laboratories | 2007 |
11 | Requirements for Laboratory Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) (Third Edition 2013) | 2013 |
12 | Requirements for Medical Testing of Microbial Nucleic Acids (Second Edition 2013) | 2013 |
13 | Requirements for Cytogenetic Testing (Third Edition 2013) | 2013 |
14 | Requirements for Information Communication (Third Edition 2013) | 2013 |
15 | Requirements for the Packaging and Transport of Pathology Specimens and Associated Materials (Fourth Edition 2013) | 2013 |
16 | Requirements for the Development and Use of In‑house In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (IVDs) (Third Edition 2014) | 2014 |
17 | Requirements for the Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty | 2007 |
18 | Requirements for the Retention of Laboratory Records and Diagnostic Material (Sixth Edition 2013) | 2013 |
19 | Requirements for Transfusion Laboratory Practice (Second Edition 2013) | 2013 |
Note The documents mentioned in Part 1 are available on the Internet — see http://www.health.gov.au/npaac.