Definition of professional service
102BB Definition of professional service
For the purpose of this Division, a professional service is any of the following:
a health service mentioned in subsection (3) or (4);
a specialist service in relation to:
sexual assault; or
family violence;
any activity prescribed by the regulations for the purpose of this paragraph.
Despite subsection (1), an activity is not a professional service if it is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.
An activity performed in relation to an individual is a health service if the activity is intended or claimed (expressly or otherwise) by the individual or the person performing it:
to assess, maintain or improve the individual’s health; or
where the individual’s health cannot be maintained or improved—to manage the individual’s health; or
to diagnose the individual’s illness, disability or injury; or
to treat the individual’s illness, disability or injury or suspected illness, disability or injury; or
to record the individual’s health for the purposes of assessing, maintaining, improving or managing the individual’s health.
The dispensing on prescription of a drug or medicinal preparation by a pharmacist is a health service.
To avoid doubt, a reference in this section to an individual’s health includes the individual’s physical or psychological health.
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