Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00088:clause:1_23dzzie
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00088
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 23DZZIE
Character Range: 13543–15872

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;
 (b) a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a practitioner;
 (c) a person who exercises control or direction over a practitioner (in his or her capacity as a practitioner).

 (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;
 (g) in any case:
 (i) a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraphs (a) to (f); or
 (ii) a person who exercises control or direction over a person specified in paragraphs (a) to (f) (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 provider of any kind of pathology service or diagnostic imaging service.