Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Amendments to improve or maintain access to government services

Part 3   Addressing non-operational approved pathology collection centres

Health Insurance Act 1973

26   After paragraph 23DNG(1)(b)

Insert:

(ba) the centre is not reasonably accessible to the public; or

(bb) the centre does not operate under reasonable hours; or

(bc) the approved pathology authority does not operate the centre as a specimen collection centre; or

(1A) Without limiting paragraph (1)(bc), an approved pathology authority does not operate a centre as a specimen collection centre if, in any continuous period of 6 months beginning on the day the approval for the centre is granted under subsection 23DNBA(1), the total amount of benefit payable in respect of pathology services rendered, using pathology specimens collected at the centre, is less than the amount of benefit prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.