Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"attendant" means a person authorized by the Secretary to accompany a person who is travelling inside or outside the Territory before or after receiving medical treatment.
"declared premises" means premises the subject of a declaration under section 6(2)(a).
"dentist" means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law:
(a) to practise in the dental profession as a dentist (other than as a student); and
(b) in the dentists division of that profession.
"dependant", in relation to a person, means:
(a) the spouse or de facto partner of the person if he or she is wholly or partly dependent on that person for financial support; or
(b) a child of the person who is wholly or partly dependent on that person for financial support.
"health practitioner" means a person engaged in the provision of a medical service referred to in paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (k) or (m) of the definition of medical services.
"hospital" means premises declared under section 6(2) to be a hospital.
"medical services" includes:
(a) attendances by salaried dentists or salaried medical practitioners;
(b) all forms of medical and dental diagnosis, advice, treatment and operation;
(c) diagnosis, investigation and treatment by use of technological means including radiation, electro-magnetic and other electrical techniques, radioactive substances, ultra sound, audiometry, clinical and other laboratory techniques;
(d) pathology services;
(e) speech therapy, audiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, chiropody, optometry, orthoptist and other paramedical services including social worker services;
(f) nursing services;
(g) accommodation, maintenance and treatment in a hospital or nursing home;
(h) treatment as an out-patient of a hospital either in the hospital or at an outlying clinic;
(j) treatment as a patient at a community health centre;
(k) chiropractic services;
(m) natural therapy services;
(n) the provision and repair of surgical footwear, prostheses, surgical aids and appliances, including home dialysis equipment and aids to daily living for the disabled;
(p) the provision of drugs and dressings;
(q) the collection of human blood and blood products;
(r) the burial or cremation of stillborn infants and the disposal of human tissue; and
(s) the reservation of medical practitioners' or dentists' time for appointments.
"nursing home" means premises which have been:
(a) approved as a nursing home by the Permanent Head of the Commonwealth Department of Health under section 40AA of the National Health Act 1953 of the Commonwealth; and
(b) declared under section 6(2) to be a nursing home.
"patient" includes both in-patients who are admitted to a hospital or nursing home and out-patients who receive medical services at a hospital or outlying clinic but who are not admitted to a hospital or nursing home.
"private dentist" or private medical practitioner means a dentist or medical practitioner who is not a salaried dentist or medical practitioner.
"private nurse" means a person who:
(a) is registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the nursing and midwifery profession as a nurse (other than as a student); and
(b) is not employed full-time by the Territory.
"salaried dentist" or salaried medical practitioner means, as the case may be:
(a) a dentist or medical practitioner who is employed on a full-time basis by the Territory; or
(b) a dentist or medical practitioner who is retained by the Territory to provide a service, but only during such period as he is so employed.
"Secretary" means the Chief Executive Officer as defined in the Public Sector Employment and Management Act , of the Agency as defined in that Act primarily responsible under the Minister for the administration of this Act.
"vehicle" means a vehicle within the meaning of the Motor Vehicles Act .
"visiting dentist" or visiting medical practitioner means a private dentist or private medical practitioner approved under section 17(1) by the Secretary.