Western Australian Numbered Acts

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 2008 (NO. 22 OF 2008) - SECT 128

128 .         Medical services provided by a person registered elsewhere

        (1)         In this section —

        “foreign practitioner” means a natural person who is registered as a medical practitioner under the law in force in another State or a Territory but does not include an interstate practitioner or defence force medical officer.

        (2)         In proceedings against a foreign practitioner for a breach of section 124 or  127(1)(a), (b) or (c), it is a defence to show that the practitioner —

            (a)         practised medicine or a specialty; or

            (b)         used the title “medical practitioner”; or

            (c)         used a title under which a specialty may be practised,

                in an emergency or for the purpose of the removal of tissue under the Human Tissue and Transplant Act 1982 .