Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEARING SERVICES AND AGHS REFORM ACT 1997 - SECT 21

  (1)   The nominated company is not taken, for the purposes of a law, to be:

  (a)   a Commonwealth authority; or

  (b)   established for a public purpose or for a purpose of the Commonwealth; or

  (c)   a public authority or an agency or instrumentality of the Crown;

(within the ordinary meaning of the expression concerned) unless a law expressly provides otherwise.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) does not prevent the nominated company from being a Commonwealth authority for the purposes of the Public Service Act 1922 if paragraph   ( c) or (d) of the definition of Commonwealth authority in subsection   7(1) of that Act applies to the company.

  (3)   Subsection   ( 2) is enacted for the avoidance of doubt.

  (4)   In this section:

"law" means:

  (a)   an Act of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or

  (b)   regulations or any other instrument made under such an Act.