South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered ActsSchedule 1—Repeal and transitional provisions
Part 1—Repeal
1—Repeal of Physiotherapists Act 1991
The Physiotherapists Act 1991 is repealed.
Part 2—Transitional provisions
2—Transitional provisions relating to Board
(1) The Physiotherapy
Board of South Australia is the same body corporate as the Physiotherapists
Board of South Australia continued in existence under the repealed Act.
(2) On the
commencement of this clause all members of the Board then in office vacate
their respective offices so that fresh appointments may be made to the Board
under this Act.
(3) If appointments
are to be made to the Board pursuant to the Acts Interpretation Act 1915
prior to the commencement and for the purposes of section 6—
(a) a
reference in that section to physiotherapist will, for those purposes, be
taken to be a reference to a person who is a registered physiotherapist under
the repealed Act at the relevant time; and
(b)
despite section 14C(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1915 , such an
appointment takes effect on the commencement of section 6 and not before.
3—Transitional provisions relating to registration
(1) The
register of physiotherapists maintained under the repealed Act continues in
existence as the register of physiotherapists under this Act.
(2) The Registrar
will, on the commencement of this clause, remove from the
register of physiotherapists any company that was registered as a
physiotherapist under the repealed Act.
(3) A person who is on
the register of physiotherapists immediately following the commencement of
this clause will be taken to be registered under this Act on that register and
any restrictions, limitations or conditions that applied to the registration
of the person under the repealed Act immediately before that commencement will
be taken to continue to apply to the registration of the person under this Act
as if they had been imposed by the Board under this Act.
(4) If a person who
was removed from the register of physiotherapists under the repealed Act for
any reason and who had not, before the commencement of this Act, been
reinstated on that register, applies for registration under this Act, the
Board may deal with the application as though it were an application for
reinstatement on the register of physiotherapists under this Act.
4—Transitional provision relating to physiotherapy students
A person who was, immediately before the commencement of this clause, enrolled
in a course of study that provides qualifications for registration on the
register of physiotherapists is, on due application to the Board, entitled to
full registration on the physiotherapy student register.
The regulations may make other provisions of a savings or transitional nature
consequent on the enactment of this Act.