When the director of a pathology laboratory must notify pathology request notifiable condition
73 When the director of a pathology laboratory must notify pathology request notifiable condition
The director of a pathology laboratory must, under subsection (2), unless the director has a reasonable excuse, notify the chief executive if the laboratory receives a request for a relevant pathological examination for a pathology request notifiable condition.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
The notice must—
comply with the requirements prescribed under a regulation; and
include the name of the doctor who referred the person’s specimen for pathological examination; and
be in the approved form.
In this section—
relevant pathological examination, for a pathology request notifiable condition, means—
if a regulation prescribes a pathological examination of a specimen of human origin for the condition—the prescribed pathological examination; or
if paragraph (a) does not apply—any pathological examination of a specimen of human origin.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
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