Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:23dzzie:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23DZZIE (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 374382–377002

23DZZIE  Meaning of requester and provider

Meaning of requester
 (1) For the purposes of this Part, a person is a requester of a kind of pathology service if the person is one or more of the following:
 (a) a practitioner, a participating midwife or a participating nurse practitioner;
 (b) a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraph (a);
 (c) a person who exercises control or direction over a person specified in paragraph (a) (in his or her capacity as such a person).
 (2) For the purposes of this Part, a person is a requester of a kind of diagnostic imaging service if the person is one or more of the following:
 (a) a medical practitioner;
 (b) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(2)—a dental practitioner;
 (c) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3)—a chiropractor;
 (d) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3A)—a physiotherapist;
 (e) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3B)—a podiatrist;
 (f) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3C)—an osteopath;
 (fa) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3D)—a participating midwife;
 (fb) if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3E)—a participating nurse practitioner;
 (g) in any case:
 (i) a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraphs (a) to (fb); or
 (ii) a person who exercises control or direction over a person specified in paragraphs (a) to (fb) (in his or her capacity as such a person).

Meaning of provider
 (3) For the purposes of this Part, a person is a provider of a kind of pathology service or diagnostic imaging service if the person is one or more of the following:
 (a) a person who renders that kind of service;
 (b) a person who carries on a business of rendering that kind of service;
 (c) a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraph (a) or (b);
 (d) a person who exercises control or direction over a person (the second person) specified in paragraph (a) or (b) (in the second person's capacity as a person specified in paragraph (a) or (b));
 (e) an approved pathology practitioner;
 (f) an approved pathology authority.
 (4) For the purposes of this Part, a person is a provider if the person is a