Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:3:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 11/12)
Character Range: 49609–52378

to an attendance by a medical practitioner on a patient, including an attendance at the medical practitioner's rooms or surgery.
 (5) Unless the Minister otherwise directs, a professional service, not being a service specified in an item in the general medical services table that is expressed to relate to a professional attendance by a medical practitioner (however described), a dental practitioner, an optometrist, a participating midwife or a participating nurse practitioner, shall be deemed to include all professional attendances necessary for the purposes of post‑operative treatment of the person to whom the professional service is rendered.
 (5A) For the purposes of this Act, a pathology service shall be deemed to include any necessary interpretation, analysis or reporting.
 (5B) For the purposes of this Act, a diagnostic imaging service is taken to include any necessary interpretation, analysis or reporting.
 (5C) For the purposes of this Act, if the descriptions of 2 diagnostic imaging services in the diagnostic imaging services table differ from each other only so far as one service is indicated to be an R‑type diagnostic imaging service and the other is indicated to be an NR‑type diagnostic imaging service, the first‑mentioned service is taken to be an R‑type diagnostic imaging service for which there is a corresponding NR‑type diagnostic imaging service.
 (6) Where a professional service rendered to a person includes a medical procedure that would, but for this subsection, itself be a professional service, that procedure shall, in respect of that person, be deemed not to be a professional service.
 (14) For the purposes of the definition of patient contribution in subsection (1), Norfolk Island is taken to form part of the State of New South Wales.
 (15) For the purposes of the definition of recognized hospital in subsection (1), State includes the Northern Territory.
 (16) In approving a form for the purposes of the definition of approved form in subsection (1), the Minister may specify a disc, tape, film or other medium as the means by which the information to be contained in the form is to be or may be set out.
 (17) For the purposes of this Act and the regulations, a service is taken to be rendered on behalf of a medical practitioner if, and only if:
 (a) it is rendered by another person who is not a medical practitioner, and who provides the service, in accordance with accepted medical practice, under the supervision of the medical practitioner; and
 (b) it is not a service of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.
 (18) If:
 (a) a professional service prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph is rendered by a medical practitioner who is a specialist