7What is a health service?

7 What is a health service? (1) For this Act, a health service is a service provided in the ACT to someone (the service user) for any of the following purposes: (a) assessing, recording, maintaining or improving the physical, mental or emotional health, comfort or wellbeing of the service user; (b) diagnosing or treating an illness, disability, disorder or condition of the service user. (2) In applying this Act in relation to a veterinary practitioner, a health service is a service provided to an animal (the service user) for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) (a) or (b). (3) A health service includes— (a) a service provided by a health practitioner in the practitioner’s capacity as a health practitioner; and (b) a service provided specifically for carers of people receiving health services or carers of people with physical or mental conditions; and (c) a service provided by a veterinary practitioner in the practitioner’s capacity as a veterinary practitioner.