means the business of undertaking, in return for a premium or contribution, the liability associated with one or more of the following activities:
a) Providing for the obtaining of any relevant health service;
b) granting assistance in defraying expenditure incurred in connection with the rendering of any relevant health service; or
| c) | rendering a relevant health service, either by the medical scheme itself, or by any supplier or group of suppliers of a relevant health service or by any person, in association with or in terms of an agreement with a medical scheme; |
[Definition amended by section 257 of Act No. 45 of 2013]