38AInterstate ambulance services and interstate officers

38A Interstate ambulance services and interstate officers

[Section 38A Inserted by No. 73 of 2013, s. 31, Applied:01 Jul 2014]

(1)  The Commissioner may make an arrangement, with any agency which manages or controls an interstate service, for the interstate service –

(a) to provide equipment to be used to provide ambulance services in this State; and

(b) to provide personnel to provide ambulance services in this State.

(2)  A vehicle from an interstate service which provides ambulance services in accordance with an interstate arrangement is taken to be an ambulance while providing those services.

(3)  For the avoidance of doubt –

(a) an interstate service may only provide ambulance services in this State under this Act if the interstate service is providing those ambulance services in accordance with an interstate arrangement; and

(b) a person from an interstate service who is providing ambulance services in accordance with an interstate arrangement is subject to the direction of the Commissioner, or the most senior officer of the Ambulance Service who is present at the scene where the ambulance services are being provided, while providing those services.

(4)  In this section –

interstate arrangement means an arrangement under subsection (1) ;

interstate service means a service established and operating in another State, a Territory or the Commonwealth that is prescribed for the purposes of this definition.