Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:3:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 10/12)
Character Range: 47095–49861

Minister means the Minister responsible for health in rural, regional or remote areas.
Secretary means the Secretary of the Department.
shares with the My Health Record system has the same meaning as in the My Health Records Act 2012.
specialist, in relation to a particular specialty (other than general practice), means a medical practitioner in relation to whom there is in force a determination under section 3DB or 3E that the medical practitioner is recognised for the purposes of this Act as a specialist in that specialty, or a medical practitioner who is taken to be so recognised under section 3D.
subsection 16B(1) request means a request of a kind referred to in subsection 16B(1).
table means the table consisting of:
 (a) the general medical services table; and
 (b) the pathology services table; and
 (c) the diagnostic imaging services table.
upload exception applies: see subsection 19AD(3).
upload rules: see section 19AI.
Veterans' Affairs Department means the Department administered by the Veterans' Affairs Minister.
Veterans' Affairs Minister means the Minister administering the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
 (1A) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, a word or phrase defined for the purposes of the National Health Act 1953 has the meaning that it would have if used in that Act.
 (2) For the purposes of this Act:
 (a) a newly‑born child who occupies an approved bed in an intensive care facility in a hospital, being a facility approved by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection, for the purpose of the provision of special care shall be deemed to be a patient of the hospital; and
 (b) where there are two or more newly born children of the same mother in a hospital and those children are not in‑patients of the hospital by virtue of paragraph (a)—each such child in excess of 1 shall be deemed to be a patient of the hospital.
 (3) Where an anaesthetic is administered to a patient:
 (a) pre‑medication of the patient in preparation for the administration of the anaesthetic; and
 (b) pre‑operative examination of the patient in preparation for the administration of the anaesthetic, being an examination carried out during the attendance at which the anaesthetic is administered;
shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to form part of the professional service constituted by the administration of the anaesthetic.
 (4) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this Act to a professional attendance or to an attendance is a reference to an attendance by a medical practitioner on a patient, including an attendance at the medical practitioner's rooms or surgery.
 (5) Unless the Minister otherwise directs, a professional service, not being a service specified in an item in the general