232Definitions

232 Definitions ***commencement day*** means the day on which section 53(1) of the **Health Services (Governance and Accountability) Act 2004** comes into operation; ***effective date***, in relation to an Order under this Part, means the date specified in the Order to be the effective date of that Order; ***metropolitan health service*** means a body that was listed in Schedule 5 immediately before the commencement day or premises occupied by such a body; ***old metropolitan health service instrument*** means an instrument subsisting immediately before the commencement day— (a) to which a metropolitan health service was a party; or (b) that was given to or in favour of a metropolitan health service; or (c) that refers to a metropolitan health service; or (i) money is, or may become, payable to or by a metropolitan health service; or (ii) other property is to be, or may become liable to be, transferred to or by a metropolitan health service; ***old public hospital*** means— (a) Ballarat Health Services; or (b) Barwon Health; or (c) Bendigo Health Care Group; or (d) Goulburn Valley Health; or (e) Latrobe Regional Hospital; or (f) a public hospital referred to in an Order under section 239; ***old public hospital instrument*** means an instrument subsisting immediately before the effective date of an Order under section 239 in the case of an old public hospital referred to in paragraph (f) of the definition of ***old public hospital*** or immediately before 1 July 2004 in the case of any other old public hospital— (a) to which an old public hospital was a party; or (b) that was given to or in favour of an old public hospital; or (c) that refers to an old public hospital; or (i) money is, or may become, payable to or by an old public hospital; or (ii) other property is to be, or may become liable to be, transferred to or by an old public hospital; ***property*** means a legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description. S. 233 inserted by No. 52/2004 s. 51.