The service was established by the Ambulance Service Act 1982 to be known as the Tasmanian Ambulance Service to provide and operate a single Ambulance Service for the State. The Service replaced the Interim Ambulance Authority that had been administering ambulance services under the Ambulance Act of 1977.;;;;On 1 July 1990 the Service was brought under the administrative control of the Department of Police and Emergency Services. Following a change of government this structure was abandoned and the Service was transferred to the Department of Health on 18 February 1992 where it has remained through subsequent restructuring of the Health portfolio.;;;;The Tasmanian Ambulance Service has subsequently been administratively renamed Ambulance Tasmania.