Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00088:section:5:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00088
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 24377–27165

this Act; and
 (b) the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is taken to be the Premier of that Territory for the purposes of this Act.
Pricing Authority means the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority.
Pricing Authority CEO means the Chief Executive Officer of the Pricing Authority.
private hospital means a facility specified in a legislative instrument made by the Minister for the purposes of this definition.
protected Administrator information means information that was obtained by a person in the person's capacity as the Administrator.
protected Commission information means information that:
 (a) was obtained by a person in the person's capacity as an official of the Commission; and
 (b) relates to the affairs of a person other than an official of the Commission.
protected Funding Body information means information that:
 (a) was obtained by a person in the person's capacity as an official of the Funding Body; and
 (b) relates to the affairs of a person other than an official of the Funding Body.
protected Pricing Authority information means information that:
 (a) was obtained by a person in the person's capacity as an official of the Pricing Authority; and
 (b) relates to the affairs of a person other than an official of the Pricing Authority;
but does not include protected information (within the meaning of the Aged Care Act) that is not aged care information.
public hospital means a facility specified in a legislative instrument made by the Minister for the purposes of this definition. If a facility is situated in a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory, the Minister must not specify the facility in such an instrument without the written agreement of the State/Territory Health Minister of the State or Territory, as the case may be.
relevant Commonwealth Minister means the following:
 (a) the Minister;
 (b) if the Minister is not also the Aged Care Minister—the Aged Care Minister.
responsible Minister for a jurisdiction means the relevant Minister with portfolio responsibility for the administration of the provision of this Act in which the expression occurs (or of the corresponding provision of the laws of the States).
Royal Commission has the same meaning as in the Royal Commissions Act 1902.
Secretary means the Secretary of the Department.
staff of the Commission means the staff described in section 47.
staff of the Funding Body means the staff described in section 264.
staff of the Pricing Authority means the staff described in section 173.
State, in Parts 5.1 and 5.2, includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
State Managed Fund of a State or Territory means a bank account or fund established or designated by the State or Territory for the purposes of health