Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00039:front:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00039
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 2818–4815

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

     Pathology services table means the table prescribed under subsection 4A(1) of the Act.

     Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme means the scheme for the supply of pharmaceutical benefits established under Part VII of the National Health Act 1953.

     Schedule means a Schedule to this Determination.

     Note: The following terms are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act:
              clinically relevant service
              pathology services table
              item
              professional service

     (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this Determination 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 a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.

 6. Treatment of relevant services

      (1) For subsection 3C(1) of the Act a relevant service, provided in accordance with this Determination and as a clinically relevant service, is to be treated, for the relevant provisions, as if:

     (a) it were both a professional service and a pathology service; and

     (b) there were an item in Groups P5 or P7 of the pathology services table that:

           (i) related to the service; and

             (ii) specified for the service a fee in relation to each State, being the fee specified in Schedule 1 in relation to the service.

 Schedule 1 – Relevant Services

Group P5—Tissue pathology
Item                       Description                                                                                                                                                                                                Fee ($)