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3  Definitions
  In this Act:
health profession means the following professions, and includes a recognised specialty in any of the following professions:
 (a) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practice;
 (b) Chinese medicine;
 (c) chiropractic;
 (d) dental (including the profession of a dentist, dental therapist, dental hygienist, dental prosthetist and oral health therapist);
 (e) medical;
 (f) medical radiation practice;
 (g) nursing and midwifery;
 (h) occupational therapy;
 (i) optometry;
 (j) osteopathy;
 (k) pharmacy;
 (l) physiotherapy;
 (m) podiatry;
 (n) psychology.
National Law has the same meaning as in the My Health Records Act 2012 of the Commonwealth.
Note: National Law is defined in section 5 of that Act to mean:
(a) for a State or Territory other than Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 of Queensland, as it applies (with or without modification) as a law of the State or Territory; or
(b) for Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010 of Western Australia, so far as that Act corresponds to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 of Queensland.
registered health practitioner means a person registered under a National Law to practise a health profession (other than as a student).
registered medical practitioner means a medical practitioner within the meaning of a National Law.