SCHEDULE 2E+WRegulated Activities: General Exceptions

4.  Paragraph 3 does not apply in relation to—E+W

(a)treatment carried out under anaesthesia (other than local anaesthesia for the purposes of a procedure mentioned in paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1) or intravenously administered sedation,

(b)medical services provided in connection with childbirth,

(c)the termination of pregnancies,

(d)cosmetic surgery, with the exception of the procedures referred to in paragraph 6(4) of Schedule 1,

(e)haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis,

(f)endoscopy other than using a device which does not have a lumen or other channel for the purpose or design of passing fluid or instruments through, or removing body tissue or fluid or any other item from, a person's body,

(g)the provision of hyperbaric therapy, being the administration of oxygen (whether or not combined with one or more other gases) to a person who is in a sealed chamber which is gradually pressurised with compressed air, where such therapy is carried out by or under the supervision or direction of a medical practitioner,

(h)intravenous, intrathecal or epidural administration of medicines or diagnostic agents,

(i)the therapeutic or diagnostic use of x-rays, radiation, protons or magnetic resonance imaging, or

(j)invasive cardiac physiology tests.