Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 21 OF 1993)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration (Amendment) Act 1993.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  

   PART II--AMENDMENTS OF THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION ACT 1930

   4.      Long title of Principal Act  
   5.      Short title of Principal Act  
   6.      Interpretation  
   7.      Insertion  
   8.      Heading to Part III  
   9.      Substitution  
   10.     Particulars to be entered in Register  
   11.     Certificate of registration  
   12.     Repeal  
   13.     Change of address to be notified  
   14.     Alteration of Register  
   15.     Substitution  
   16.     Substitution  
   17.     Application for re-registration  
   18.     Inquiry by Board  
   19.     Publication of notice of decision  
   20.     Advertising  
   21.     Repeal  
   22.     Substitution  
   23.     Repeal  
   24.     Further amendments  

   PART III--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONSDIVISION 1--SAVINGS $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 21 OF 1993) - SECT 25 REGISTER $$T $$NSECT 25. THE REGISTER TO BE KEPT UNDER SECTION 22M OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT IS A CONTINUATION OF THE REGISTER KEPT UNDER SECTION 19 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT. $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 21 OF 1993) - SECT 26 CONTINUATION OF REGISTRATION $$T $$NSECT 26. A PERSON WHO, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT, WAS REGISTERED AS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER UNDER THE PRINCIPAL ACT CONTINUES TO BE REGISTERED UNDER THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT ON THE SAME TERMS AND SUBJECT TO THE SAME CONDITIONS AS APPLIED TO HIS OR HER REGISTRATION IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT. $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 21 OF 1993) - SECT 27 PERSONS GRANTED PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION $$T $$NSECT 27. A PERSON WHO, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE REPEAL OF SECTION 29 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT BY THIS ACT, HELD PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION UNDER THAT SECTION SHALL, ON THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT, BE TAKEN TO BE A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN GRANTED INTERIM REGISTRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 22A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT. $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 21 OF 1993) - SECT 28 APPROVED MEDICAL OFFICERS $$T $$NSECT 28. WHERE, BEFORE THE REPEAL OF SECTION 38A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT BY THIS ACT, THE BOARD HAD APPROVED A QUALIFIED PERSON FOR THE PURPOSES OF THAT SECTION, NOTHING IN PART IV OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT MAKES IT UNLAWFUL FOR THAT PERSON TO HOLD AN APPOINTMENT AS, AND TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF, A MEDICAL OFFICER IN A HOSPITAL APPROVED BY THE BOARD FOR THE TIME BEING FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AND, IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THOSE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES, TO SIGN A CERTIFICATE TO WHICH SECTION 38 APPLIES. $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 21 OF 1993) - SECT 29 FAILURE TO PAY ANNUAL FEE UNDER REPEALED PROVISIONS $$T $$NSECT 29. (1) A FAILURE BY A REGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER TO PAY A FEE THAT BECAME PAYABLE BY HIM OR HER UNDER SECTION 24A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS IN FORCE BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT SHALL BE TAKEN TO BE A FAILURE TO PAY A FEE THAT BECAME PAYABLE UNDER SECTION 29A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT.(2) A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER WHO WAS NOT REGISTERED UNDER THE PRINCIPAL ACT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT BECAUSE HIS OR HER REGISTRATION WAS CANCELLED FOR A FAILURE BY THE PRACTITIONER TO PAY A FEE THAT HAD BECOME PAYABLE BY HIM OR HER UNDER SECTION 24A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS IN FORCE BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT SHALL BE TAKEN TO HAVE HAD HIS OR HER REGISTRATION CANCELLED FOR A FAILURE TO PAY A FEE WHICH HAD BECOME PAYABLE BY HIM OR HER UNDER SECTION 29A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT.

   30.     Applications for registration  
   31.     Continuation of inquiries and reviews  
   32.     Complaints relating to previous conduct  
   33.     Existing orders  
   34.     Interpretation  
   35.     Grounds for deregistration  
   36.     Board to deregister certain foreign practitioners  
   37.     Duration of practise necessary to establish practise during a period  
   38.     Foreign medical practitioners deregistered for non-payment of fees  
   39.     Review of decisions  

   PART IV--MISCELLANEOUS RENUMBERING

   40.     (1) The amended Act is further amended as provided by this section.  
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