Part 1—Preliminary
Ambulance Services Act 1986 No. 114 of 1986
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Metropolitan Ambulance Service means the ambulance service created under section 23 whose area of administrative jurisdiction includes the General Post Office at Melbourne; operational staff member means a person who is employed or engaged (whether on a paid or voluntary basis) by an ambulance service— (a) as an ambulance paramedic or an intensive care paramedic; or (b) in any other capacity to provide medical or other assistance to patients in an emergency; police officer has the same meaning as in the Victoria Police Act 2013;
Secretary means the Department Head (within the meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004) of the Department of Health;
senior available next of kin has the same meaning as in the Human Tissue Act 1982;
successor ambulance service, in relation to an abolished ambulance service, means an ambulance service that is by force of section 23A(1) to be taken to be the same body as the abolished ambulance service for the purposes of any trust in relation to the