Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated ActsIn this part:
"ambulance services "means the provision of medical treatment and pre-hospital patient care, and includes the transport of a patient by ambulance or medical rescue aircraft.
"emergency services "means—
(a) response operations for storms and floods; or
(b) assistance operations in relation to emergencies and searches.
"firefighting services" means—
(a) services for the protection of life, property and the environment from fire; or
(b) response operations for hazardous material incidents or chemical, biological or radiological incidents.
"rescue services" means response operations for rescue incidents, including the release or removal to a safe place of any person, animal or property trapped or endangered because of fire, accident, hazardous material incident, explosion or similar event.
"response operation" means a coordinated response to an incident to which an emergency service may respond under this Act.