Health Insurance Act 1973

The Minister may revoke an approval (the current approval) granted for a specimen collection centre if the Minister is satisfied that:

the centre has ceased to be an eligible collection centre; or

the centre does not comply with the Collection Centre Guidelines; or

the centre is not reasonably accessible to the public; or

the centre does not operate under reasonable hours; or

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

either during the period of the current approval or during the period of a previous approval:

subsection 23DNBB(3) or section 23DNK has been breached in relation to the centre; or

the approved pathology authority breached an undertaking that it gave under the Approval Principles; or

the approved pathology authority misused the number specified in the current approval, being a misuse in connection with a specimen collected at a specimen collection centre operated by the approved pathology authority (whether or not that centre was an approved collection centre).

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.

If the Minister decides to revoke an approval, the Minister must give written notice of the revocation to the approved pathology authority, specifying the day from which the revocation has effect (which cannot be earlier than the day on which the notice is given to the authority).