New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PHYSIOTHERAPISTS REGISTRATION ACT 1945 - SECT 21

21 Qualifications for registration

(1) A person who is, in the opinion of the Board, of good character and who has attained such age as may be prescribed by the regulations is entitled to be registered as a physiotherapist if:

(a) the person is the holder of a degree, diploma or other award prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph,

(b) the Board is satisfied that the person has the requisite knowledge and skill to practise physiotherapy in New South Wales by reason that the person:

(i) has undertaken a course of study and training in, or practised, physiotherapy in any country (including Australia), and

(ii) has passed such examinations (if any), and undertaken such course of study and training (if any), as the Board may require in any particular case or class of cases, or

(c) the person was registered under this Act as a physiotherapist before the commencement of the Physiotherapists Registration (Amendment) Act 1985 and ceased to be registered otherwise than by virtue of section 23 (1) (b).

(1A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) but subject to the provisions of subsection (1B), a person shall not be entitled to be registered as a physiotherapist unless:

(a) the Board is satisfied that the person has, for a period of or for periods amounting in the aggregate to at least twelve months, satisfactorily practised physiotherapy as the holder of a certificate of conditional registration in such government department, State hospital, mental hospital, public hospital within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997 , private hospital or other institution, as the Minister may approve, or

(b) the Board is satisfied that:

(i) the person is unable, by reason of the person’s physical incapacity, to comply with the requirements of paragraph (a),

(ii) the person has for a period of or periods amounting in the aggregate to at least twelve months received special tuition in physiotherapy approved by the Board, and

(iii) the person was, during the period or periods referred to in subparagraph (ii), the holder of a certificate of conditional registration.

(1B) Where a person would, but for subsection (1A), be entitled to be registered as a physiotherapist, the Board may:

(a) exempt the person or persons of the class to which the person belongs from the operation of subsection (1A), or

(b) determine that the period or aggregate of periods referred to in subsection (1A) (a) or (b) shall be reduced, in respect of the person or persons of the class to which the person belongs, by such period as the Board thinks fit.