New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 67B

67B Provision etc of ambulance services

(1) The Health Secretary has, on behalf of the Crown, the following functions--

(a) to provide, conduct, operate and maintain ambulance services,

(b) to co-operate with or provide assistance to any person or organisation for the purposes of providing, conducting, operating and maintaining ambulance services,

(c) in connection with ambulance services referred to in paragraph (a), to protect persons from injury or death, whether or not those persons are sick or injured,

(d) to adopt and implement all necessary measures (including systems of planning, management and quality control) as will best ensure the efficient and economic operation and use of resources in the provision of ambulance services,

(e) to consult and co-operate with individuals and organisations (including voluntary agencies, private agencies and public or local authorities) concerned with the provision of ambulance services,

(f) to co-ordinate and plan the future development of ambulance services, and towards that end, to support, encourage and facilitate the organisation of community involvement in the planning of those services,

(g) to set objectives and determine priorities in relation to the provision of ambulance services and to monitor whether those objectives are achieved,

(h) to achieve and maintain adequate standards of ambulance services,

(i) to make available to the public reports, information and advice concerning the operation of ambulance services,

(j) to provide assistance to, or co-operate with, any person or organisation in connection with the depiction of ambulance services in the news or entertainment media,

(k) to exercise such other functions in relation to ambulance services as may be conferred or imposed on the Health Secretary by the regulations.

(2) The exercise of functions under this section in emergencies and rescue operations is subject to the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 .

(3) The Health Secretary may delegate the exercise of any function of the Health Secretary under this section (other than this power of delegation) to an appointed body.