Northern Territory Numbered Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 2014 (NO 18 OF 2014) - SECT 8

    (1)     A "health service" includes any of the following:

(a)      a hospital service;

(b)      a medical service;

(c)      a paramedical service;

(d)      a community health service;

    (e)     an environmental health service;

    (f)     a health support service;

(g)      the supply or fitting of any prosthesis or therapeutic device;

(h)      any other service (including any service of a class, or description, that is prescribed by regulation) relating to the maintenance or improvement of the health, or the restoration to health, of persons, or the prevention of disease in, or injury to, persons.

    (2)     A health service is a public health service if it is provided by any of the following:

    (a)     a Service;

    (b)     the Department;

    (c)     an affiliated health organisation.

    (3)     A regulation may prescribe that a service is not a health service for this Act.