Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSION (REFORM AND SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONS) ACT 1997 - SECT 44

  (1)   The nominated company is not taken, for the purposes of a law, to be:

  (a)   a Commonwealth authority; or

  (b)   established for a public purpose or for a purpose of the Commonwealth; or

  (c)   a public authority or an agency or instrumentality of the Crown;

(within the ordinary meaning of the expression concerned) unless a law expressly provides otherwise.

  (2)   In this section:

"law" means:

  (a)   an Act of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or

  (b)   regulations or any other instrument made under such an Act.