Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:81:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 81 (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 462272–464913

a Director's review arising from the initial request; or
 (c) a Committee investigation arising from the Director's review; or
 (d) a request by a Committee under subsection 106J(1) arising from the Committee investigation;
means the period specified in the initial request.
service means:
 (a) a service that has been rendered if, at the time it was rendered, medicare benefit or dental benefit was payable in respect of the service; or
 (aa) a service that has been rendered if, at the time it was rendered, medicare benefit would have been payable in respect of the service if section 19AD were disregarded; or
 (ab) a service that has been initiated (whether or not it has been or will be rendered) if, at the time it was initiated, medicare benefit would have been payable in respect of the service had it been rendered at that time; or
 (ac) a service that has been initiated (whether or not it has been or will be rendered) if, at the time it was initiated, medicare benefit would have been payable in respect of the service if it had been rendered at that time and section 19AD were disregarded; or
 (b) a service rendered by way of a prescribing or supply of a pharmaceutical benefit by a medical practitioner, a dental practitioner, an optometrist, a midwife or a nurse practitioner; or
 (c) a service that:
 (i) has been rendered in connection with the provision of treatment under a relevant DVA law; and
 (ii) is of a kind that, if the service had not been rendered in connection with the provision of treatment under the relevant DVA law, medicare benefit or dental benefit would have been payable in respect of the service; or
 (d) a service that:
 (i) has been rendered in connection with the provision of treatment under a relevant DVA law; and
 (ii) is of a kind that, if the service had not been rendered in connection with the provision of treatment under the relevant DVA law, medicare benefit would have been payable in respect of the service if section 19AD were disregarded.
Note 1: See Part II, and in particular section 10, for when a medicare benefit is payable.
Note 2: See the Dental Benefits Act 2008 for when a dental benefit is payable.
specialist, in relation to a particular specialty, includes (except for the purposes of section 95) a consultant physician in that specialty.

Practitioners and professions determined by Minister
 (1A) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine:
 (a) that a health professional of a particular kind (being a health professional who provides a health service within the meaning of subsection 3C(8)) is a practitioner for the purposes of this Part; and
 (b) that