4AObjectives

4A Objectives

The objectives of this Act are to ensure that—

(a) the holders of non-emergency patient transport service licences—

(i) provide non-emergency patient transport services that are safe and of an appropriate quality and that give priority to the needs of the persons to whom the services are provided; and

(ii) foster continuous improvement in the quality and safety of the non‑emergency patient transport services they provide; and

(iii) maintain suitable clinical governance arrangements and management and staffing arrangements in the non‑emergency patient transport services they provide; and

(b) the holders of first aid service licences—

(i) provide first aid services that are safe and of an appropriate quality and that give priority to the needs of the persons to whom the services are provided; and

(ii) foster continuous improvement in the quality and safety of the first aid services they provide; and

(iii) maintain suitable clinical governance arrangements and management and staffing arrangements in the first aid services they provide.

Part 2—Licensing non-emergency patient transport service operators

Division 1—Offences

5 Offence to operate a non-emergency patient transport service without a licence

S. 5(1) amended by No. 29/2021 s. 8(1).

(1) A person must not operate a non-emergency patient transport service unless that person holds a non-emergency patient transport service licence.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to each of the following persons when the person is operating a non-emergency patient transport service—

(a) an ambulance service; or

(b) a public hospital or denominational hospital; or

(c) any other person or class of person whom the Governor in Council has declared to be a person or class of person to whom subsection (1) does not apply.

S. 5(3) amended by No. 29/2021 s. 8(2).

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the Governor in Council may, by Order published in the Government Gazette, declare a person or class of person to be a person or class of person to whom subsection (1) does not apply.

S. 6 (Heading) amended by No. 29/2021 s. 9(1).