Social Security (Treating Health Professionals) Determination 2010 (Cth)

Social Security (Treating Health Professionals) Determination 2010

Social Security Act 1991

I, JEFF HARMER, Secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, make this Determination under section 38F of the Social Security Act 1991.

Dated    30 June 2010

Jeff Harmer

Secretary, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

1              Name of Determination

This Determination is the Social Security (Treating Health Professionals) Determination 2010.

2              Commencement

This Determination commences on 1 July 2010.

3              Revocation

This Determination revokes the Social Security (Treating Health Professionals) Determination 2009.

4              Treating health professionals

For section 38F of the Social Security Act 1991, a person in each of the following classes of persons is a treating health professional:

a)   a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners;

b)   a person registered or licensed as a nurse under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of nurses;

c)   an occupational therapist who is eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Occupational Therapists;

d)   a person registered or licensed to practise physiotherapy under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of physiotherapists;

e)   a person registered as a psychologist under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration of psychologists;

f)    a person employed in a clinical role as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander health worker, by a health service, in a geographically remote location;

g)   (i) a person registered or licensed to practise speech pathology under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of speech pathologists; or

(ii) if registration or licensing of speech pathologists is not available in a State or Territory, a person employed as a speech pathologist who is a member of the Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited.