Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts In this Act, unless
the contrary intention appears —
Committee means a committee that is declared, or
is by section 14 taken to have been declared, to be an approved quality
improvement committee under section 7(1);
governing body means the person or body (by
whatever name called) having the general direction and control of, and overall
responsibility for, the operations of —
(a) a
health service; or
(b) an
association, society, college, faculty or other body of professionals who
provide a health service;
health service means —
(a) any
medical, hospital, ambulance, paramedical, dental, pharmaceutical, mental
health, nursing home, palliative care, community health or environmental
health service;
(b) any
service relating to or associated with the provision of a service referred to
in paragraph (a); or
(c) any
other service relating to or associated with the maintenance or improvement of
the health, or the restoration to health, of persons or the prevention of
disease in or injury to persons.