Queensland Consolidated Acts

TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT 2018 - SECT 7

7 Registered health practitioners and students who may assist

(1) This section applies in relation to—

(a) the performance of a termination on a person by a medical practitioner; or

(b) the performance of a medical termination on a person by a registered health practitioner to whom section 6A applies.

(2) A prescribed practitioner may, in the practice of the practitioner’s prescribed health profession, assist in the performance of the termination.

(3) A prescribed student may assist in the performance of the termination if the student provides the assistance only—

(a) under the supervision of—

(i) the medical practitioner or registered health practitioner; or

(ii) a prescribed practitioner lawfully assisting in the performance of the termination; or

(iii) the student’s primary clinical supervisor; and

(b) to the extent necessary to complete the student’s program of study for, or clinical training in, the student’s health profession.

(4) However, subsections (2) and (3) do not apply in relation to a termination that the assisting prescribed practitioner or prescribed student knows, or ought reasonably to know, is being performed by—

(a) the medical practitioner other than under section 5 or 6 ; or

(b) the registered health practitioner other than under section 6A .