Assessment of need
4 For the purposes of paragraph 9(1)(a)(i)(A) of the Act, the board shall, inassessing the need for a medical laboratory or a test to be performed in a medical laboratory, consider:
(a) whether existing medical laboratories are capable of meeting any need for additional testing, or would be capable of meeting that need if they were expanded, having regard to:
(i) the types and number of tests performed in existing medical laboratories;
(ii) the number of specimens collected, transported and referred by existing medical laboratories;