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section 24 of the Act.

FTB recipient has the same meaning as in section 24 of the Act.

medicare number has the same meaning as in section 84 of the National Health Act 1953.

MRCAETS means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act Education and Training Scheme.

      Note Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act Education and Training Scheme 2004 is a legislative instrument.

oral health therapist means a person who has general registration in the oral health therapists division of the dental profession under a law of a State or Territory.

parenting payment has the meaning given by the definition of parenting payment in section 18 of the Social Security Act 1991.

partner has the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1991.

provider number has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Regulations 2018.

public sector dental provider means:
 (a) a dental provider employed by, contracted to, or providing dental services under an arrangement with:
 (i) the Commonwealth; or
 (ii) a State; or
 (iii) an internal Territory; or
 (iv) a local governing body; or
 (v) an authority established by a law of the Commonwealth, a law of a State or a law of an internal Territory; or
 (b) a dental provider on whose behalf another dental provider provides dental services under an arrangement with a body mentioned in subparagraph (a)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v).

     receive, for disability support pension, parenting payment, special benefit, carer payment and double orphan pension, has the meaning given by section 23 of the Social Security Act 1991.
     registered dentist means a dental provider covered by paragraph 6(1)(a) of the Act.

     relevantly provided, for a dental service, means provided as a service for which dental benefit is payable under the Act.

     special benefit has the meaning given by Part 2.15 of the Social Security Act 1991.

     VCES means the Veterans' Children Education Scheme.

Note: Veterans' Children Education Scheme is a legislative instrument.

5 Dental Benefits Schedule

      For subsection 61(1) of the Act, the Dental Benefits Schedule is set out in Schedule 1.

6 Dental providers

      (1) For the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(b) of the Act, a person included in one or more of the following classes of persons is a dental provider in relation to a dental service:
 (a) dental hygienists;
 (b) dental therapists;
 (c) oral health therapists.

Note: A registered dentist is also a dental provider in relation to a dental service (see the definition of dental provider in paragraph 6(1)(a) of the Act).

      (2) For the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(b) of the Act, a dental practitioner is not a dental provider in relation to a dental service if the dental practitioner has not been allocated a provider number by the Chief Executive