Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSION (REFORM AND SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONS) ACT 1997 No. 159 of 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.