Hospitals and Health Services (Pathology) Regulations 2005

 

Hospitals and Health Services (Pathology) Regulations 2005

CONTENTS

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Interpretation1

4.Pathology-related functions of MHS1

Notes

Compilation table3

 

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals and Health Services (Pathology) Regulations 2005

1.Citation

These regulations are the Hospitals and Health Services (Pathology) Regulations 2005.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation on 15 July 2005.

3.Interpretation

In these regulations —

MHS (which stands for Metropolitan Health Services) means the Minister for Health in his or her incorporated capacity under section 7 of the Act as the board of the hospitals that were managed and controlled by the Metropolitan Health Service Board immediately before its abolition on 6 March 2001 by the Hospitals and Health Services (Metropolitan Health Service Board) Abolition Notice 2001.

4.Pathology-related functions of MHS

(1)For the purposes of section 18(1)(b) of the Act, the MHS may —

(a)provide pathology services and related medical scientific services for the purpose of diagnosing and managing disease or protecting public health, being any pathology services or medical scientific services other than those that the MHS is empowered to provide under section 18(1)(a)(iii) of the Act by virtue of clause 3 of the Hospital and Health Services (Pathology) Approval 2005;

(b)provide forensic biology services and forensic pathology services, including obtaining DNA profiles for forensic and other purposes, being any forensic biology services or forensic pathology services other than those that the MHS is empowered to provide under section 18(a)(iii) of the Act by virtue of clause 3 of the Hospital and Health Services (Pathology) Approval 2005;

(c)conduct training and instruction in, and research into, services of a kind that the MHS is empowered to provide under paragraph (a) or (b) or under section 18(a)(iii) of the Act by virtue of clause 3 of the Hospital and Health Services (Pathology) Approval 2005; and

(d)carry out any function ancillary to providing services or carrying out functions that are provided or carried out by the MHS under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or under section 18(a)(iii) of the Act by virtue of clause 3 of the Hospital and Health Services (Pathology) Approval 2005.

 

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Hospitals and Health Services (Pathology) Regulations 2005. The following table contains information about those regulations.

Compilation table

Citation

Gazettal

Commencement

Hospitals and Health Services (Pathology) Regulations 2005

12 Jul 2005 p. 3237-8

15 Jul 2005 (see r. 2)