Emergency ambulance services
57 Emergency ambulance services
A person must not provide emergency ambulance services unless—
the services are carried out by SAAS; or
the services are provided by a person or a person of a class, or in circumstances, prescribed by regulation; or
the services are provided under an exemption granted by the Minister under this Part.
Maximum penalty: $20 000.
A person holding a restricted ambulance service licence may, despite subsection (1), provide an emergency ambulance service if—
the person is acting within the scope of an authorisation given by SAAS (either in relation to specified cases, or in relation to a particular case, and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations or determined by SAAS); or
the person has reason to believe that failure to provide such a service will put at risk the health or safety of a particular person, or of a section of the public more generally, and the person providing the service has taken such action as is reasonable in the circumstances to contact SAAS to seek an authorisation under this section; or
the person is acting at the direction or request of SAAS.
If a person acts under subsection (2)(b), the person must, at the request of SAAS, furnish to SAAS a written report on the circumstances of the particular case within a time specified by SAAS.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
A person must not display the term "Emergency Ambulance" on a motor vehicle driven on a public road unless the vehicle is being used—
by
SAAS; or
by a person in circumstances prescribed by the regulations.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by regulation
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