Victorian Numbered Acts

SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS) AMENDMENT ACT 2025 (NO. 12 OF 2025)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS) ACT 2015

   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Rounding method  
   6.      Emergency departments  
   7.      New sections 20A and 20B inserted  
   8.      Coronary care units  
   9.      High dependency units  
   10.     Antenatal wards  
   11.     New section 30A inserted  
   12.     Postnatal wards  
   13.     New section 31B inserted  
   14.     Local dispute resolution  

   PART 3--FURTHER AMENDMENT OF SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS) ACT 2015

   15.     Definitions  
   16.     High dependency units  
   17.     Schedule 1—Level 1, 2 and 3 hospitals  
   18.     Schedule 2—Hospitals not restricted in use of enrolled nurses  
   19.     Schedule 3—Categories of hospitals for emergency department ratios  

   PART 4--REPEAL OF THIS ACT

   20.     Repeal of this Act  
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