Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO 21 OF 1993)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration (Amendment) Act 1993.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1930.1  

   PART II--AMENDMENTS OF THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION ACT 1930

   4.      The long title of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end “, and for other purposes”.  
   5.      Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Registration”.  
   6.      Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   7.      After section 4 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted in Part I:  
   8.      The heading to Part III of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “AND QUALIFICATIONS”.  
   9.      Sections 19, 22, 22A and 22B of the Principal Act are repealed and the following Divisions, Division heading and section substituted:  
   10.     Section 23 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   11.     Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   12.     Section 24A of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   13.     Section 24B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) “or notified to the Board under section 24A”.  
   14.     Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   15.     Sections 28A, 29, 29A and 29B of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted:  
   16.     Sections 30 and 30A of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted:  
   17.     Section 30B of the Principal Act is amended—  
   18.     Section 31 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   19.     Section 31B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraphs (1) (b) and (c) and substituting the following paragraphs:  
   20.     Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “or herself” after “himself”.  
   21.     Sections 38A and 38B of the Principal Act are repealed.  
   22.     Sections 39C and 39D of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections substituted:  
   23.     The Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed.  
   24.     The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.  

   PART III--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONSDIVISION 1--SAVINGS REGISTER $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION - SECT 25 25. THE REGISTER TO BE KEPT UNDER SECTION 22M OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT IS A CONTINUATION OF THE REGISTER KEPT UNDER SECTION 19 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT. $$T $$NSECT CONTINUATION OF REGISTRATION $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION - SECT 26 26. A PERSON WHO, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT, WAS REGISTERED AS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER UNDER THE PRINCIPAL ACT CONTINUES TO BE REGISTERED UNDER THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT ON THE SAME TERMS AND SUBJECT TO THE SAME CONDITIONS AS APPLIED TO HIS OR HER REGISTRATION IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT. $$T $$NSECT PERSONS GRANTED PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION - SECT 27 27. A PERSON WHO, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE REPEAL OF SECTION 29 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT BY THIS ACT, HELD PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION UNDER THAT SECTION SHALL, ON THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT, BE TAKEN TO BE A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN GRANTED INTERIM REGISTRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 22A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT. $$T $$NSECT APPROVED MEDICAL OFFICERS $$A $$T MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION - SECT 28 28. WHERE, BEFORE THE REPEAL OF SECTION 38A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT BY THIS ACT, THE BOARD HAD APPROVED A QUALIFIED PERSON FOR THE PURPOSES OF THAT SECTION, NOTHING IN PART IV OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT MAKES IT UNLAWFUL FOR THAT PERSON TO HOLD AN APPOINTMENT AS, AND TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF, A MEDICAL OFFICER IN A HOSPITAL APPROVED BY THE BOARD FOR THE TIME BEING FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AND, IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THOSE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES, TO SIGN A CERTIFICATE TO WHICH SECTION 38 APPLIES. $$T $$NSECT FAILURE TO PAY ANNUAL FEE UNDER REPEALED PROVISIONS 29. (1) A FAILURE BY A REGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER TO PAY A FEE THAT BECAME PAYABLE BY HIM OR HER UNDER SECTION 24A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS IN FORCE BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS ACT SHALL BE TAKEN TO BE A FAILURE TO PAY A FEE THAT BECAME PAYABLE UNDER SECTION 29A OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT.

   30.     An application for registration under the Principal Act as in force before the commencement of this Act that had not been determined before the commencement of this Act shall be taken to be an application for registration under the Principal Act as amended by this Act and any inquiry or investigation for the purposes of the application may be continued or completed.  
   33.     An order having effect under a provision of the Principal Act repealed by this Act is, by this section, converted to an equivalent order under the Principal Act as amended by this Act.  
   35.     For the purposes of this Division, a foreign medical practitioner is liable to deregistration unless the practitioner—  

   PART IV--MISCELLANEOUS RENUMBERING OF PROVISIONS
           SCHEDULE