Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL ACT 1894 - SECT 11AG

11AG .         Conditional registration for general practice in remote and rural WA

        (1)         Subject to section 11AA, the Board may register a person as a medical practitioner if —

            (a)         the Board is satisfied that the person —

                  (i)         has qualifications and experience in general practice obtained outside Australia;

                  (ii)         is competent, having regard to the person’s qualifications and experience, to practise as a general practitioner in this State; and

                  (iii)         has undertaken to comply with the conditions imposed by subsection (2);

                and

            (b)         the person pays to the Board together with his or her application for registration such registration fee as is prescribed, together with the annual practice fee prescribed for the purposes of section 16A.

        (2)         The registration of a person under this section is subject to the following conditions —

            (a)         that the person practise only as a general practitioner;

            (b)         that the person must practise in remote and rural WA for 5 years after being registered; and

            (c)         if the person is not a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners at the time of registration under this section, that he or she must become such a Fellow within 2 years of being so registered.

        (3)         The Board may impose such other conditions as it thinks appropriate on the registration of a person under this section, but a condition under this subsection must not restrict the parts of the State in which the person may practise after the expiration of the 5 years referred to in subsection (2)(b).

        (4)         If a person who is registered under this section satisfies the Board that there is a good reason why he or she should not be required to comply with the condition imposed by subsection (2)(b) or (c) the Board may vary that condition as the Board thinks appropriate.

        (5)         If the Board is satisfied that a person registered under this section has failed to comply with a condition imposed by subsection (2) the Board may, without an inquiry, remove the name of the person from the register.

        (6)         Subject to subsection (5) and sections 10(5), 13, 13A and 16A(2), the Board shall not remove the name of a person registered under this section from the register or suspend the registration of a person so registered after the person has complied with the conditions imposed by subsection (2)(b) and (c).

        (7)         In this section —

        practise as a general practitioner means practise as a medical practitioner engaged in primary, continuing, comprehensive, whole-patient care of individuals, families and their community;

        remote and rural WA means any part of the State, outside the Perth metropolitan area, determined by theMinister to be remote and rural WA for the purposes of this section.

        [Section 11AG inserted by No. 48 of 2000 s. 8.]