Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 4/12)
Character Range: 31778–34643

purpose of the provision of medical, hospital and other care, as if the person were an Australian resident.
eligible person means an Australian resident or an eligible overseas representative.
excessive pathology service means a pathology service:
 (a) in respect of which medicare benefit has become or may become payable; and
 (b) that is not reasonably necessary for the adequate medical or dental care of the patient concerned.
extended compliance determination has the meaning given by subsection 124ZUA(1).
finally determined has the same meaning as in the Migration Act 1958.
friendly society means:
 (a) a body that is a friendly society for the purposes of the Life Insurance Act 1995; or
 (b) a body that is registered or incorporated as a friendly society under a law of a State or Territory; or
 (c) a body that is permitted, by a law of a State or Territory, to assume or use the expression friendly society; or
 (d) a body that, immediately before the date that is the transfer date for the purposes of the Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1999, was registered or incorporated as a friendly society under a law of a State or Territory.
general medical services table, means the table prescribed under section 4.
general practitioner means:
 (a) a medical practitioner who is registered under the National Law in the specialty of general practice; or
 (b) a medical practitioner of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
hospital has the meaning given by subsection 121‑5(5) of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.
hospital service means a health service of a kind provided in a hospital and includes:
 (a) accommodation in a hospital for the purposes of receiving treatment; and
 (b) nursing care and treatment; and
 (c) medical care and treatment including diagnostic services; and
 (d) outpatient, accident and emergency services.
hospital‑substitute treatment has the same meaning as in the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.
hospital treatment has the meaning given by section 121‑5 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.
Human Services Department means the Department administered by the Human Services Minister.
Human Services Minister means the Minister administering the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997.
Immigration Department means the Department administered by the Minister administering the Migration Act 1958.
initiate, in relation to a pathology service or a diagnostic imaging service, means make the decision by reason of which the service is rendered.
item means an item in the table.
listed:
 (a) in relation to diagnostic imaging equipment—has the meaning given by subsections 16D(4) and (5); and
 (b) in relation to radiation oncology equipment—has the meaning given by subsections 16F(6) and (7).
medical entrepreneur has the meaning given by