Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act 1942
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24 Interpretation
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(1) In this Division:
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 rendered by a person who carries on the profession of masseur and includes any ancillary treatment rendered by such person, but does not include any such massage or treatment which is rendered:
(a) to a patient in a public hospital, unless such patient has been classified as a private or intermediate patient,
(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 rendered.
Medical treatment does not include treatment which is rendered:
(a) to a patient in a public hospital, unless such patient has been classified as a private or intermediate 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 sections 25 (1) (b) and 26 (1) (b), be counted as a separate treatment.
s 24: Am 1972 No 15, Sch; 1972 No 35, sec 2 (1) (a); 1976 No 72, Sch 2; 1977 No 113, Sch 1 (3); 1984 No 86, Sch 5 (15); 1986 No 53, Sch 1; 1997 No 154, Sch 6.27; 2007 No 9, Sch 5.24; 2010 No 97, Sch 2.21; 2011 No 4, Sch 2.23.