New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ACT 1982 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"area health service" means an area health service constituted under the Health Services Act 1997 .
"Corporation" means the Health Administration Corporation constituted by section 9.
"Department" means the Department of Health.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department.
"Foundation" means the New South Wales Health Foundation constituted by section 16.
"health service" means any medical, hospital, ambulance, paramedical, community health or environmental health service or any other service (including any service of a prescribed class or description) relating to the maintenance or improvement of the health, or the restoration to health, of persons or the prevention of disease in or injury to persons.
"regulations" means regulations under this Act.

(1A) The expression “NSW Health” may be used to describe the Corporation, the Department and any other body and organisation under the control and direction of the Minister.

(2) A reference in this Act to an ambulance service is a reference to a service relating to the work of rendering first aid to, and the transport of, sick and injured persons.

(3) A reference in this Act to:

(a) a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.