means the program for providing pharmaceutical benefits under the National Health Act 1953 .

of a healthcare provider includes the healthcare provider’s healthcare identifier.

means an organisation that:

, of a State or Territory, means:

has the same meaning as in the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012 .

has the same meaning as in the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012 .

means an entity that is responsible under a law for registering members of a particular health profession.

has the meaning given by paragraph 9A(3)(b).

, for a healthcare provider organisation’s healthcare identifier, means a state imposed by the service operator on the healthcare identifier so that it may no longer be used by the healthcare provider organisation to identify the healthcare provider organisation.

has the meaning given by subsections 9A(3) and (4) .

means the Chief Executive Medicare .

means a person who is both an individual healthcare provider and a healthcare provider organisation.

has the meaning given by section 6C.

includes under the regulations.

means the Department that: