Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:93d:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 93D (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 1359540–1362333

93D  Bribery etc.
 (1) In this section:
dental practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a dental practitioner or dentist under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of dental practitioners or dentists.
eligible person means a person eligible under section 85 or 86 to be provided with treatment under this Part.
in‑patient, in relation to a private hospital, means a person who occupies a bed in the hospital.
medical practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners.
officer, in relation to a corporation, includes:
 (a) a director, secretary, manager or employee of the corporation;
 (b) a receiver and manager of any part of the undertaking of the corporation appointed under a power contained in any instrument; or
 (c) a liquidator of the corporation appointed in a voluntary winding up.
pathology service means a procedure of a kind described in an item in the table of pathology services prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of section 4A of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
patient means an eligible person who is provided with treatment under this Part.
practitioner means:
 (a) a medical practitioner; or
 (b) a dental practitioner.
private hospital means premises that are a private hospital for the purposes of section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
proprietor means:
 (a) in relation to premises—the person, authority or body of persons having effective control of the premises, whether or not that person, authority or body is the holder of an estate or interest in the premises; and
 (b) in relation to a private hospital—the proprietor (within the meaning of paragraph (a)) of the premises occupied by the hospital.
 (2) A person who:
 (a) being a person who renders pathology services, carries on the business of rendering pathology services or is a proprietor of premises at which pathology services are rendered, directly or indirectly offers any inducement (whether by way of money, property or other benefit or advantage), or threatens any detriment or disadvantage:
 (i) to a practitioner as defined in subsection (1) in order to encourage the practitioner to request the rendering of a pathology service or of pathology services; or
 (ii) to a person (other than a practitioner as defined in subsection (1)) in order to encourage such a practitioner to request the rendering of a pathology service or of pathology services;
 (b) being a person who renders pathology services, carries on the business of rendering pathology services or is a proprietor of premises at which pathology services are rendered:
 (i) directly or indirectly invites a practitioner as defined