§ 3 — Meanings of “healthcare service” and “licensable healthcare service”

3.—(1) In this Act —“healthcare service” means any of the following services, whether or not provided for reward:(a)

assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prevention or alleviation of an ailment, a condition, disability, disease, disorder or an injury affecting any part of the human body or mind;

(b)

nursing or rehabilitative care of an individual suffering from an ailment, a condition, disability, disease, disorder or an injury mentioned in paragraph (a);

(c)

conduct of any clinical procedure to change, or that is intended to change, the appearance or anatomy of an individual;

(d)

assessment of the health of an individual;

(e)

any other service of a medical or healthcare nature that is prescribed;

“licensable healthcare service” means a healthcare service specified in the First Schedule.

(2) In subsection (1), “clinical procedure” —(a)

means any procedure that only a medical practitioner, a dentist or an oral health therapist is authorised under any written law to perform and which involves any of the following:(i)

puncture of the skin to inject, deliver, implant or anchor any substance or object into the human body, or to withdraw or remove blood, fluid or tissue from the human body;

(ii)

penetration of any human body orifice to deliver into or remove any substance from the body;

(iii)

external application of energy to any part of the human body that is capable of causing severe or irreversible injury to the body;

(iv)

chemical or mechanical exfoliation of the skin that targets below the epidermis;

(v)

manipulation or modification of the dental hard or soft tissues within the oral cavity that causes, or is capable of causing, changes to such tissues; but

(b)

does not include any of the following:(i)

body piercing;

(ii)

body tattooing;

(iii)

application of intense pulsed light.

—(1) In this Act —“healthcare service” means any of the following services, whether or not provided for reward:(a)

assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prevention or alleviation of an ailment, a condition, disability, disease, disorder or an injury affecting any part of the human body or mind;

(b)

nursing or rehabilitative care of an individual suffering from an ailment, a condition, disability, disease, disorder or an injury mentioned in paragraph (a);

(c)

conduct of any clinical procedure to change, or that is intended to change, the appearance or anatomy of an individual;

(d)

assessment of the health of an individual;

(e)

any other service of a medical or healthcare nature that is prescribed;

“licensable healthcare service” means a healthcare service specified in the First Schedule.

(2) In subsection (1), “clinical procedure” —(a)

means any procedure that only a medical practitioner, a dentist or an oral health therapist is authorised under any written law to perform and which involves any of the following:(i)

puncture of the skin to inject, deliver, implant or anchor any substance or object into the human body, or to withdraw or remove blood, fluid or tissue from the human body;

(ii)

penetration of any human body orifice to deliver into or remove any substance from the body;

(iii)

external application of energy to any part of the human body that is capable of causing severe or irreversible injury to the body;

(iv)

chemical or mechanical exfoliation of the skin that targets below the epidermis;

(v)

manipulation or modification of the dental hard or soft tissues within the oral cavity that causes, or is capable of causing, changes to such tissues; but

(b)

does not include any of the following:(i)

body piercing;

(ii)

body tattooing;

(iii)

application of intense pulsed light.