those medical services as set forth by the regulations of

the board [the Division of Allied Health Professions of the Board

of Medical Quality Assurance referred to as the "board" in this

opinion] when such services are rendered under the supervision of

a licensed physician or physicians approved by the board." We must

therefore look to those regulations to determine what medical

services a physician's assistant may perform.


          The Physician Assistants Regulations ("regulations"

herein) are found in chapter 13.8 of title 16 of the California

Code of Regulations in section 1399.500 through section 1399.556.

To simplify our references to these regulations we will omit use of


     1
      While the Act refers to the new category as a "physician's

assistant" theto transmit a

supervising physician's order for the listed services to others but

not to initiate such orders. 


          We conclude that a physician assistant may not lawfully

initiate, on behalf of his or her supervising physician, orders for

the six services specified in the first question for the diagnosis

or treatment of a patient of the supervising physician.


                       Transmitting Orders


          The second questions asks whether a physician assistant

may lawfully "transmit"5 the orders of his or her supervising

physician for the six services specified in the first question. In

our analysis of the first question