Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who is not a registrant, medical practitioner, osteopath or physiotherapist must not, in the course of providing a health service, perform spinal manipulation on a person.
Maximum penalty--1000 penalty units.
(2) This section does not prohibit spinal manipulation on a person by a student, under the immediate personal supervision of a registrant, medical practitioner, osteopath or physiotherapist, in the course of the student's training and instruction for a qualification as a chiropractor, medical practitioner, osteopath or physiotherapist.
(3) In this section--
osteopath means a person registered under the Osteopaths Registration Act 2001.
physiotherapist means a person registered under the Physiotherapists Registration Act 2001.
spinal manipulation means the high velocity application of force to a person's body that affects a joint, or group of joints, of the person's spinal column.