✨ Health Regulations Definitions
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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 55
23 MARCH 2005
Expression
| Expression | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Provider | A service provider who provides the Services to which this Notice relates. |
| Purchase Date | The date on which the Eligible Person is provided with the Services by the Provider under clause E3 or purchases the Services from the Provider under clause E4. |
| Reconstructive Surgery (Mammoplasty) | Plastic surgery of the breast in which an existing breast is reconstructed, which includes the preservation of the breast nipple and skin and removal of the breast contents, and the replacement of the breast contents with a person’s body tissue or a pad made from silicone gel. |
| Records | All written and electronically stored material and all records and information held by the Provider or on the Provider’s behalf or by the Provider’s employees, subcontractors, or agents, which are relevant to the provision of the Services. |
| Representative Groups | Appropriate groups representative of Eligible Persons. |
| Services | The provision or purchase of breast prostheses, breast forms, special bras to hold breast prostheses or breast forms, surgical bras and normal bras. The Services include the modification of a normal bra to hold breast prostheses or breast forms, swim forms, bra fillers, foam fillers, shell prostheses, lumpectomy shells or prosthetic nipples. |
| Special Bra | A bra that is designed to hold prostheses (a mastectomy bra), or has a pocket inserted for prostheses, or that is used for sensitive or sore breasts immediately after a Full or Partial Mastectomy. |
| Specialist | A Medical Practitioner who is registered in a vocational scope of practice by the Medical Council of New Zealand under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003. |
| Uncontrollable Event | An event that is beyond the reasonable control of a Person but does not include: |
- (a) any risk or event that the Person could have prevented or overcome by taking reasonable care including having in place a reasonable risk management process; or
- (b) lack of funds for any reason (other than where the Ministry has failed to make due payment). |
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