Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00197:reg:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00197
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 2667–5787

4  Definitions

        (1) In this instrument:

        Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

        dental practitioner has the same meaning as subsection 3(1) of the Act.

        eligible oral and maxillofacial surgeon means a dental practitioner who is recognised under the National Law in the speciality of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

        eligible orthodontist means:

          (a) a dental practitioner who is registered under National Law in the speciality of orthodontics; or

          (b) a dental practitioner whose qualifications or experience were recognised by the Australian Society of Orthodontists, prior to 31 March 2013, as applicable to:

               i. services mentioned in items 75002, 75005, 75007, 75012, 75015, and 75024 to 75051; or

               ii. services mentioned in at least one of these items; or

          (c) a dental practitioner who, immediately prior to 1 November 2012, was a registered orthodontist as defined in rule 2.59.2(3)(b) of the general medical services table or any equivalent provision of preceding regulations.

             Note: In this section, an equivalent provision of preceding regulations means a provision of regulations prescribed pursuant to section 4 of the Act in force at any time prior to the commencement of the general medical services table, being a provision concerning the accreditation of a dental practitioner who was not registered or licensed as an orthodontist under a law of a State or Territory that provided for the registration or licensing of orthodontists.

        eligible paediatric dentist means a dental practitioner who is recognised under the National Law in the speciality of paediatric dentistry.

        eligible prosthodontist means a dental practitioner who is recognised under the National Law in the speciality of prosthodontics.

        medical practitioner has the same meaning as subsection 3(1) of the Act.

        referring dentist means a dental practitioner who is recognised under the National Law in the dentists division of the dental profession.
        relevant provisions means all provisions, relating to professional services or to medical services, of the Act and regulations made under the Act, and the National Health Act 1953 and regulations made under that Act.

        relevant service means a health service, as defined in subsection 3C(8) of the Act, that is specified in the table at Schedule 2.

        Schedule means a Schedule to this instrument.

             Note: Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in this instrument have the same meanings as in the Act—see section 13 of the Legislation Act 2003. Terms defined in the Act include:

              general medical services table

              item

              National Law

              professional service

        (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this instrument to a provision of the Act or the National Health Act 1953 or regulations made under the Act or under the National Health Act 1953 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying