127Provision of regulated health service by person not

127 Provision of regulated health service by person not health practitioner (1) A person commits an offence if— (a) the person intentionally provides a regulated health service; and (b) the person is not a health practitioner. Example—someone providing a regulated health service to someone in the ACT when not a health practitioner A person (Dr W) provides a medical service by a video link from an island in the South Pacific to Mary Smith in the ACT. Dr W advises Mary that she needs to have her tonsils removed. Dr W is not a health practitioner. Dr W contravenes this subsection. (2) This section does not apply to— (a) a health service provided in an emergency; or (b) the provision, by mail order, or over the internet or by other electronic means, of manufactured aids to rehabilitation or surgical prosthetics and orthotics; or (c) a health service ordinarily provided in the ordinary course of business by people other than health practitioners. Example—par (b) dental restorative or corrective devices regulated health service means a health service ordinarily provided by a health practitioner.