HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1986 No. 75 of 1986 - SECT 22 Interpretation

HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1986 No. 75 of 1986 - SECT 22

22. Section 79 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting sub-sections (1A) and (1B) and substituting the following
        sub-sections:

"(1a) A reference in section 94, 95, 104 or 105 to a practitioner includes a
reference to a person who has been a practitioner.

"(1b) A reference in this Division to excessive services is a reference to
professional services (other than pathology services), being services in
respect of which medicare benefit has become or may become payable and which
were not reasonably necessary for the adequate medical or dental care of the
patient concerned.";

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (4) "or initiates a pathology service";
        and

   (c)  by omitting from sub-section (4) "or that pathology service to have
        been initiated, as the case may be,".