Western Australian Numbered Acts

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 2008 (NO. 22 OF 2008) - SECT 3

3 .         Objects of Act

                The objects of this Act are —

            (a)         to ensure that only properly qualified and competent persons practise medicine and to regulate the practice of medicine by those persons; and

            (b)         to establish, maintain and promote suitable standards of knowledge and skills among medical practitioners,

                for the purpose of protecting consumers of medical services provided by medical practitioners in Western Australia.