Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00095:section:3:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00095
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 5/13)
Character Range: 25797–28449

under the control, of the subject:
 (a) the constitution and rules of the subject, if the subject is a private health insurer;
 (b) the internal training manuals and related documents of the subject;
 (c) any documents relevant to a private health insurance arrangement to which the subject is a party or that applies to the subject;
 (d) to the extent that the complaint or investigation relates to the subject's dealings with a particular person—the subject's documents relating to its dealings with that particular person including correspondence, internal memoranda, emails, and recordings of taped conversations;
whenever those documents came into existence.

postal or similar service includes:
 (a) a postal service; and
 (b) a courier service; and
 (c) a packet or parcel carrying service.

PPO (short for Private Postal Operator) means an entity (other than Australia Post) that provides a postal or similar service, whether or not that entity also provides other services.
prescribed authority means:
 (a) a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose by, or in accordance with the provisions of, an enactment, other than:
 (i) an incorporated company or association;
 (ii) a body that has the power to take evidence on oath or affirmation and is required, or is expressly permitted, by an enactment to be constituted by, or to include among its members, a person who is a Justice or Judge of a court created by the Parliament or a person who has, by virtue of an Act, the same status as a Justice or Judge of such a court;
 (iii) a body that, under subsection (2) or the regulations, is not to be taken to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of this Act; and
 (v) a Royal Commission; or
 (b) a Commonwealth‑controlled company that is a prescribed authority by virtue of section 3A; or
 (ba) a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established by the Governor‑General or by a Minister and declared by the regulations to be a prescribed authority; or
 (bb) a chief executive officer, in relation to a court or tribunal; or
 (c) the person holding, or performing the duties of, an office established by an enactment, other than:
 (i) the chief executive officer, in relation to a court or tribunal, or a person who, for the purposes of this Act, is to be taken to be a member of the staff of a court or tribunal; or
 (ii) a person who, under subsection (3) or the regulations, is not to be taken to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of this Act; or
 (d) the person performing the duties of an appointment declared by the regulations to be an appointment the holder of which is a prescribed