Queensland Consolidated Acts

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 53I

53I Definitions for div 4

(1) In this division—

"administrator" means the administrator of the National Health Funding Pool appointed under section 53K and under the corresponding provision of the laws of the Commonwealth and the other States.

"COAG" means the Council of Australian Governments.

"function" includes a power, authority or duty.

"Hospital and Health Service" —

(a) for Queensland, means a Hospital and Health Service established under section 17 ; or

(b) for another State, means an organisation that is a local hospital network (however described) for the purposes of the National Health Reform Agreement.

"National Health Funding Pool" means the combined State pool accounts for each State.

"National Health Reform Agreement" means the National Health Reform Agreement between the Commonwealth and the States that was agreed to by COAG on 2 August 2011, as amended from time to time.

"responsible Minister" for a jurisdiction means the relevant Minister with portfolio responsibility for the administration of the provision of this division in which the expression occurs (or of the corresponding provision of the laws of the Commonwealth and the other States).

Note—

See also section 53ZB .

"Standing Council on Health" means (subject to subsection (2) ) the Ministerial Council by that name or, if there is no such Ministerial Council, the standing Ministerial Council established or recognised by COAG whose members include all Ministers in Australia having portfolio responsibility for health.

"State" includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.

"State managed fund" of a State means a bank account or fund established or designated by the State for the purposes of health funding under the National Health Reform Agreement that is required to be undertaken in the State through a State managed fund.

"State pool account" of a State means the bank account established by the State under section 53B or under the corresponding provisions of the law of another State.

(2) The Standing Council on Health, when acting under this division, is to be constituted only by a single Minister for the Commonwealth and a single Minister for each of the States, and any reference in this division to a member of that Council is to be construed as a reference to those Ministerial members only.

(3) If there are 2 or more Ministers for the Commonwealth or for a State who are members of the Standing Council on Health, the relevant Minister for the purposes of this division is the Minister having primary portfolio responsibility for health in his or her jurisdiction.

(4) A reference in this division to the agreement of, or a request by, a member of the Standing Council on Health is a reference to an agreement or request in writing.

(5) This division is to be interpreted in accordance with Schedule 7 to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 .

(6) The Acts Interpretation Act 1954 does not apply to or in respect of this division.