Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL ACT 1894 - SECT 10

10 .         Register to be kept by the Registrar

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, the Registrar shall keep a register of medical practitioners.

        (1a)         The Registrar shall, at the direction of the Board, and on payment of the prescribed fee —

            (a)         where a person, not being a body corporate, has the necessary qualifications under this Act register that person by entering his name together with such other particulars as are prescribed under subsection (2); and

            (b)         where, in relation to a body corporate, the Board approves of the application pursuant to section 11 register that body corporate by entering the name by which it is incorporated and any other name by reference to which it carries on business, together with such other particulars as may be prescribed,

                in the register.

        (2)         The Register shall be kept in such manner and form, and contain such particulars as prescribed by the rules, and shall at all times be open to inspection by any person on payment of the prescribed fee.

        (3)         The Board shall, from time to time, erase any entry which shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board to have been fraudulently or incorrectly made.

        (4)         The Board may cause to be made any necessary alterations in the register so as to ensure that the register is kept correctly posted.

        (5)         The Board may cause the Registrar to send a letter to any person registered under this Act addressed to that person at the address appearing in the register, and if no answer is received from that person within 2 months after the date of the posting of that letter, the Board may erase the name of that person from the register.

        (6)         If the name of a person is erased from the register under subsection (5) the Board may restore that name to the register if the medical practitioner whose name is so erased —

            (a)         applies to the Board in the prescribed form;

            (b)         pays the prescribed practice fee;

            (c)         pays the prescribed restoration fee;

            (d)         pays a fine not exceeding the prescribed amount that may be imposed by the Board for the non-payment of the annual practice fee on or before the date fixed by the rules;

            (e)         satisfies the Board that he or she is a person of good fame and character or if requested by the Board produces to the Board his or her certificate of registration.

        [Section 10 amended by No. 10 of 1955 s. 2; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 70 of 1976 s. 3; No. 70 of 1985 s. 8; No. 55 of 2004 s. 727.]