"osteopath" means a person registered or licensed to practise osteopathy under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of osteopaths.

2 At the end of subparagraph 16B(1)(b)(v)

Add "or".

3 After subparagraph 16B(1)(b)(v)

Insert:

(vi) subject to subsection (3C), an osteopath;
4 After subsection 16B(3B)

Insert:

[Osteopaths may only request certain services]

(3C)

A request made by an osteopath, acting in his or her capacity as an osteopath, for an R-type diagnostic imaging service to be rendered is not effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is a request for a service of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.

5 Paragraph 16B(9)(a)

Omit "or podiatrist", substitute ", podiatrist or osteopath,".

6 Paragraph 16B(9)(b)

Omit "or podiatrist", substitute ", podiatrist or osteopath,".

7 At the end of subsection 16B(9)

Add:

; and (g) if the requesting practitioner is an osteopath who made the request in his or her capacity as an osteopath—the request is not rendered ineffective by the operation of subsection (3C).

8 Subsection 23DQ(4) (at the end of the definition of practitioner )

Add:

; or (f) an osteopath.

9 Section 23DZF (definition of practitioner )

Omit "and a podiatrist", substitute ", a podiatrist and an osteopath".

10 Subsection 81(1) (at the end of the definition of practitioner )

Add:

; or (h) an osteopath.

11 Subsection 81(1) (at the end of the definition of profession )

Add:

; (g) osteopathy.

12 Paragraph 106ZPA(1)(c)

Omit "7", substitute "8".

13 At the end of subsection 106ZPA(1)

Add:

; and (viii) one is to be an osteopath.
14 Subsection 124B(1) (at the end of the definition of practitioner )

Add:

; or (h) an osteopath.