Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:16b:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 16B (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 132738–135485

her capacity as a podiatrist, for an R‑type diagnostic imaging service to be rendered is not effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is a request for a service of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.

Osteopaths may only request certain services
 (3C) A request made by an osteopath, acting in his or her capacity as an osteopath, for an R‑type diagnostic imaging service to be rendered is not effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is a request for a service of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.

Participating midwives may only request certain services
 (3D) A request made by a participating midwife, acting in his or her capacity as a participating midwife, for an R‑type diagnostic imaging service to be rendered is not effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is a request for a service of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.

Participating nurse practitioners may only request certain services
 (3E) A request made by a participating nurse practitioner, acting in his or her capacity as a participating nurse practitioner, for an R‑type diagnostic imaging service to be rendered is not effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is a request for a service of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.

Referral to specified practitioner not required
 (4) For the purposes of subsection (1):
 (a) the request need not be addressed to a particular practitioner; and
 (b) where it is so addressed—the service need not be rendered by or on behalf of that practitioner.

Request may be for more than one service
 (5) For the purposes of subsection (1), the request may be for the rendering of more than one R‑type diagnostic imaging service, but, once one of the requested services has been rendered pursuant to the notice, any subsequent requested service is not taken to have been rendered pursuant to the notice unless it is so rendered within 7 days after the rendering of the first service.

Exemption—consultant physicians and specialists
 (6) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
 (a) the providing practitioner is a consultant physician, or a specialist, in a particular specialty (other than the specialty of diagnostic radiology); and
 (b) the service was rendered by or on behalf of the providing practitioner in the course of the providing practitioner practising that specialty; and
 (c) the providing practitioner determined that the service was necessary.

Remote area exemption
 (7) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
 (a) the service is not one for which there is a corresponding NR‑type diagnostic imaging service; and
 (b) the