Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

OMBUDSMAN (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 97 OF 1993) - SECT 5

5. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—

        (a)     by inserting after paragraph (2) (cd) the following paragraph:

    “(ce)     action taken by—

              (i)     the Commissioner for Health Complaints;

              (ii)     a delegate of the Commissioner for Health Complaints;

              (iii)     a member of the Health Complaints Unit, being the office established by section 6 of the Health Complaints Act 1993 ;

              (iv)     a conciliator appointed under section 32 of that Act; or

              (v)     a mentor appointed under section 38 of that Act;”;

        (b)     by omitting from paragraph (2) (d) “or” (last occurring);

        (c)     by adding at the end of paragraph (2) (e) “or”;

        (d)     by adding at the end of subsection (2) the following paragraph:

    “(f)     action taken by an agency—

              (i)     for the purpose or in the course of providing, or purporting to provide, a health service; or

              (ii)     in refusing to provide a health service.”; and

        (e)     by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(6) In this section—

‘health service' means a service provided or to be provided in the Territory for, or purportedly for, the benefit of the health of a person and includes a service specified in Part I of the Schedule to the Health Complaints Act 1993 , but not a service specified in Part II of that Schedule.”.