Ambulance Service Act 1982

The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may – prescribe a scale of fees payable, or a means for calculating fees payable, in respect of – ambulance services (including the conveyance of dead bodies) provided by the Commissioner; and any other service provided by the Commissioner, an authorised officer or the Ambulance Service; and applications made under this Act; and provide for the payment of a special allowance or gratuity to any person in respect of voluntary or special services rendered by that person to the Commissioner; and prescribe standards and requirements for the operation of non-emergency patient transport services including, but not limited to, the following matters:safety, cleanliness and hygiene (including infection control procedures); the welfare of persons being transported (including comfort, privacy and respectful treatment); staffing (including staff numbers, qualifications and clinical accreditation); the provision, inspection and maintenance of vehicles and equipment; storage facilities; the amount and type of insurance required to be maintained; the evaluation, monitoring and improvement of the quality of the NEPT Service and its staff; the provision and display of information including the livery, signage and branding of the NEPT Service and its apparatus; communication devices to be carried by staff or installed in vehicles of the NEPT Service; and prescribe conditions that may apply to an NEPT licence or a class or classes of NEPT licences; and prescribe records to be kept by an NEPT Service and, but not limited to, the form and nature of such records, the time within which such records are to be made and the period for which the records must be kept; and prescribe, or provide for, conditional or unconditional exemptions from all or any part of this Act; and prescribe fees payable for non-emergency patient transport services that are provided by the Ambulance Service; and provide for the reduction, waiver or refund of all or any part of a fee payable under this Act; and prescribe the qualifications that an officer of the Ambulance Service, a paramedic or a volunteer ambulance officer may be required to hold; and prescribe the methods of training of officers of the Ambulance Service and volunteer ambulance officers.

The regulations may adopt, either wholly or in part and with or without modification, and either specifically or by reference, any document, whether the document is published or issued before or after the commencement of this Act.

Regulations under this section may be made subject to such conditions, or be made so as to apply differently according to such factors, as may be specified in the regulations, or according to such limitations or restrictions, whether as to time or circumstance or otherwise, as may be so specified.

Regulations under this section may provide that it is an offence, punishable on summary conviction, for a person to contravene, or fail to comply with, any of the regulations and may provide in respect of any such offence for the imposition of a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding 0·2 penalty unit for each day during which the offence continues.

A regulation under this section may authorize any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, or regulated by any person specified in the regulation.