Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, approve forms of undertaking to be given by persons who wish to become approved pathology practitioners or approved pathology authorities.
(2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, vary a form of undertaking approved under subsection (1).
(3) A form of undertaking shall make provision for and in relation to such matters as the Minister considers appropriate.
(4) Without limiting the generality of subsection (3), a form of undertaking to be given by persons who wish to become approved pathology practitioners may make provision for:
(a) an undertaking by the person that pathology services in respect of which medicare benefits may become payable that are rendered on behalf of the person shall be carried out under the person's personal supervision;
(b) an undertaking by the person not to render excessive pathology services; and
(c) an undertaking by the person that pathology services in respect of which medicare benefits may become payable that are rendered by or on behalf of the person in an accredited pathology laboratory of which the person is not the proprietor or a proprietor shall not be rendered pursuant to agreements or arrangements of a kind specified in the undertaking.
(4A) An undertaking given by a person as mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) is, by this subsection, taken to be an undertaking that the person will, in respect of each pathology service rendered on behalf of the person:
(a) ensure that a properly qualified person supervises the rendering of the service (as determined in accordance with principles determined by the Minister under subsection 3AA(3)); and
(b) have personal responsibility for the proper rendering of the service.