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Section 2Part 1 — Preliminary

Definitions

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means the department, including all of its staff and physical resources, of which the chief officer is the Auditor-General;
means the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority established under section 3;
means the Board of directors of the Authority established under section 8;
means the withdrawal of equity investment from an entity;
means the person appointed as such under section 14;
means revenue earned by the Government using the coercive power of the state and for which no direct exchange of service occurs;
means the Cayman Islands Health Foundation Committee established under section 6A(2);
means a member of the Committee appointed under section 6A(3);
means the supplement paid to employees of the Government and of statutory authorities pursuant to local or overseas contracts;
means a director of the Authority appointed under section 8;
means any body and includes a ministry, portfolio, statutory authority, and government company;
means all assets controlled by the Authority for the purpose of producing its outputs, but does not include any assets of the Government declared by the Minister of Finance not to be assets of the Authority ;
means an amount invested in a ministry, portfolio, statutory authority or government company by the Cabinet on behalf of the Government;
means all assets of the Government other than entity assets, and includes the equity investments of the Government in ministries, portfolios, statutory authorities and government companies, but does not include assets held by the Government as trustee for another person;
means all expenses incurred by the Government other than entity expenses, and includes expenses incurred by the Cabinet in purchasing outputs from ministries, portfolios and other suppliers, but does not include expenses incurred by the Government as trustee for another person;
includes any fees or charge prescribed to be paid by patients of the health care facilities, (whether in-patients or out-patients), for treatment, nursing, accommodation, attendance, food, dressings, drugs, medicines or other supplies or services of whatever kind rendered to such patients by the health care facilities, but does not include fees payable to members of the medical staff whose services are not paid for by Authority;
includes monies, stocks, shares and other securities;
means a year ending on the 30th June;
means the Cayman Islands Health Foundation established under section 6A(1);
means —
International Public Sector Accounting Standards issued by the International Federation of Accountants; or
where no guidance is provided by those standards, International Accounting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee; or
where no guidance is provided by the standards referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), accounting practice that is generally accepted within the accounting profession in the United Kingdom as appropriate for reporting by the entire public sector, or ministries, portfolios, statutory authorities or government companies;
mean the Cayman Islands Hospital in Grand Cayman, the Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac and any other public health facilities, clinics and hospitals established or operated in the Islands by the Authority;
means the medical director appointed by the Authority from time to time;
has the meaning assigned to it by the Public Health Law (2002 Revision);
means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for health;
means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for finance;
means the goods or services that are produced by an entity or other person;
includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal; also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;
means any programme or service mandated and paid for by the Government in the interests of the general good health of the population; and
means assets (including money, but not money belonging to the Government) transferred or paid to the Government or a ministry, portfolio, or the Audit Office in trust for any purpose or to hold for or on behalf of any person, and includes any such assets —
to be held pending the completion of a transaction or dispute; or
that belong or are due to any person and are collected under any agreement with that person.

Defined Terms

Audit OfficeAuthorityBoardcapital withdrawalChief Executive Officercoercive revenueCommitteeCommittee membercontracted officer's supplementdirectorentityentity assetsequity investmentexecutive assetsexecutive expensesfeesfundsfinancial yearFoundationgenerally accepted accounting practicehealth care facilitiesMedical Director of the AuthorityMedical Officer of HealthMinisterMinister of Financeoutputspropertypublic health programmetrust assets

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