Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 95 of 1989 - SECT 11

11. Section 4A of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Variations and alterations of pathology services table

"4A. (1) The regulations may provide that this Act shall have effect as if the
pathology services table were varied:

   (a)  by omitting an item or rule of interpretation from the table;

   (b)  by inserting an item or rule of interpretation in the table; or

   (c)  by substituting another amount for an amount set out in the table.

"(2) The regulations may prescribe a table of pathology services in accordance
with the form of table set out in Schedule 1A.

"(3) On the commencement of a regulation prescribing a table of pathology
services:

   (a)  the table so prescribed has effect as if it were set out in Schedule
        1A in the place of the table (in this subsection referred to as 'the
        superseded table') in that Schedule; and

   (b)  the superseded table or, if another table has effect, by virtue of
        this section, in the place of the superseded table, that other table
        ceases to have effect.

"(4) The regulations may amend a table that has effect by virtue of paragraph
(3) (a) and, on the commencement of the amendment, the table as so amended has
effect in the place of the first-mentioned table.

"(5) In this section, a reference to a table of pathology services shall be
read as including a reference to rules for the interpretation of that table.

"(6) Regulations under this section shall, unless sooner repealed, cease to be
in force on the day next following the 15th sitting day of the House of
Representatives after the expiration of a period of 12 months commencing on
the day on which the regulations are notified in the Gazette, and shall be
deemed to have been repealed on the first-mentioned day.".