39ADefinitions

39A Definitions

39A Definitions

(1) In this Part:

ambulance vehicle means a vehicle which is fitted or equipped or constructed for use for the conveyance of sick or injured persons and which is controlled by the Health Administration Corporation constituted by the Health Administration Act 1982.

hospital means a public hospital, or a private health facility licensed under the Private Health Facilities Act 2007, and includes a hospital or institution in the nature of a hospital conducted by or on behalf of the State.

massage treatment means massage provided by a person who carries on the profession of masseur and includes any ancillary treatment provided by the person, but does not include any massage or treatment provided:

(a) to a patient in a public hospital, unless the patient has been classified as a private or intermediate patient, or

(b) to any patient in a hospital by a person who is a paid employee of the hospital and who, in the course of that person’s employment at the hospital, normally works for at least 30 hours per week.

masseur means a person by whom massage treatment is provided.

medical treatment does not include treatment provided:

(a) to a patient in a public hospital, unless the patient has been classified as a private patient,

(b) to any patient in a hospital by a resident medical officer of such hospital.

nursing includes treatment by a registered nurse.

public hospital means:

(a) a public hospital within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997 controlled by a local health district or the Crown, or

(b) a statutory health corporation or affiliated health organisation within the meaning of that Act.

(2) Where, at a public hospital, a person receives, as an out-patient, treatments of different kinds or at different places, each treatment shall, for the purposes of section 39B (1) (b), be counted as a separate treatment.

s 39A: Ins 1989 No 47, Sch 1 (19). Am 1997 No 154, Sch 6.25; 2007 No 9, Sch 5.22; 2010 No 97, Sch 2.20; 2011 No 4, Sch 2.22.