Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TREATMENT BENEFITS (SPECIAL ACCESS) ACT 2019 (NO. 41, 2019) - SECT 52

             (1)  A person commits an offence if:

                     (a)  the person is a pathology practitioner; and

                     (b)  another practitioner (the requesting practitioner ) requests the pathology practitioner to provide pathology services to a person (the patient ); and

                     (c)  the patient is an eligible person; and

                     (d)  the pathology practitioner provides those services; and

                     (e)  the pathology practitioner makes a payment (either directly or indirectly) to the requesting practitioner either:

                              (i)  in respect of other services provided by the requesting practitioner to the patient in connection with the request; or

                             (ii)  in respect of the use of the requesting practitioner's staff in connection with taking pathology specimens from the patient.

Penalty:  60 penalty units.

             (2)  Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(c).

Note:          For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .