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Social Security (Treating Health Professionals) Determination 2009

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This instrument defines who counts as a "treating health professional" for Australian social security claims, specifying six categories of qualified, regulated health workers who can provide medical evidence for payments like the Disability Support Pension or Sickness Allowance. It matters because it sets the legal standard for whose clinical assessments and certificates Centrelink will accept.

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Social Security (Treating Health Professionals) Determination 20091

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 26 June 2009

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 2009.

2 Commencement

This Determination commences on 1 July 2009.

3 Treating health professionals

For section 38F of the Social Security Act 1991, each of the following kinds of person 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;

(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.

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Note: 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.

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