63AApplication of Group A24

63A Application of Group A24 (1) Subgroups 1 and 2 of Group A24 apply only if the attendance is by a medical practitioner who is recognised as a specialist, or consultant physician, in the specialty of pain medicine for the purposes of the Act. (2) Subgroups 3 and 4 of Group A24 apply only if the attendance is by a medical practitioner who is recognised as a specialist, or consultant physician, in the specialty of palliative medicine for the purposes of the Act. 63AA Meaning of outer metropolitan area and outer metropolitan specialist trainee in items 5906, 5908, 5910 and 5912 In items 5906, 5908, 5910 and 5912: > outer metropolitan area means an area in Australia that has been determined by the Department by reference to a locality that lies outside the urban centre area of a capital city (on the basis of 1991 census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1994). > outer metropolitan specialist trainee means: (a) a medical practitioner who is currently enrolled in and undertaking a training course in an approved specialist college listed as a specified body in Schedule 5 to the Health Insurance Regulations 1975 (excluding the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners); or (b) a practitioner who is undertaking a placement as part of the structured training program of the approved specialist college that provides experience not available in teaching hospitals: (i) as part of an accredited ‘advanced’ training placement, or a training placement approved by the Department, that fully counts towards training time and other formal requirements; and (ii) as a college trainee with access to medicare benefits that is limited to attendances provided at a practice nominated by the approved specialist college for a specified time period.