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subject to the same conditions, that it may delegate all or any of its powers under the Act.

Note: section 213 of the Act sets out the circumstances in which the Commission may delegate its powers.

1.4 Interpretation
              1.4.1 In these Principles, unless a contrary intention appears:

"ABN (Australian Business Number)" has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.

    "Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker" means a person who is qualified as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait primary health care worker after undertaking a course in Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander Health, provided by an institution recognised by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Health Islander Practice Board of Australia as suitable for providing a course of that nature, and who obtained a Certificate Level III (or higher) under the course.

"Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Care
    Co‑ordination treatment" means treatment provided by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker to an entitled person under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program, comprised of:

               (a) implementing the Comprehensive Care Plan for the person under the Program — in particular co‑ordinating treatment services under the Comprehensive Care Plan;
              (b) liaising, in relation to the Comprehensive Care Plan, with the general practitioner who manages the Comprehensive Care Plan for the person;
                (c) performing such other functions under the program that the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker has under the Fees for Coordinated Veterans' Care Program Providers.

    "ACPMH treatment" means action taken with a view to maintaining an entitled veteran in mental health and includes:
          (a) training members of the Defence Force or staff made available under section 196 of the Act, or both, in the mental health care disciplines that could benefit the mental health of an entitled veteran; and
          (b) conducting research into mental injuries or diseases suffered by members of the Defence Force or into the mental state generally of such members with the resulting knowledge being applied to the benefit of the health of an entitled veteran; and
          (c) improving communication on mental injury or disease health care matters between:
                (i) members of the Defence Force who are staff‑managers; and
                (ii) staff made available under section 196 of the Act; and
               (iii) an entitled veteran; and
          (d) conducting mental injury or disease health care policy research with the outcomes of that research being applied to the benefit of the health of an entitled veteran.

          Note (1): under subsection 80(1) of the Act treatment can be action taken with a view to maintaining a person in physical or mental health.

          Note (2): the terms "member", "Defence Force", "member of the Defence Force", are