MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1983 - SECT 4

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1983 - SECT 4

4—Repeal and transitional provision

        (1)         The Medical Practitioners Act 1919 is repealed.

        (2)         All property, rights and liabilities vested in or attached to the former board immediately before the commencement of subsection (1) shall, upon the commencement of that subsection, vest in or attach to the board.

        (3)         A reference in an instrument (whether or not of a statutory nature) to the former Board shall, where the context admits, be construed as a reference to the Board.

        (4)         A person registered under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been registered under this Act upon the conditions (if any) to which his registration was subject under the repealed Act.

        (5)         A person—

            (a)         registered under the repealed Act as a specialist immediately before the commencement of subsection (1); or

            (b)         in respect of whom a certificate of exemption was in force under section 29C(3) of the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1),

shall be deemed to have been registered as a specialist under this Act upon the conditions (if any) to which the registration or certificate of exemption was subject.

        (6)         A person in relation to whom a certificate of limited registration was in force under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been registered under this Act and his registration shall—

            (a)         be subject to a condition requiring him to comply with the limitations, restrictions and conditions to which his registration under the repealed Act was subject; and

            (b)         expire when his registration under the repealed Act would have expired if that Act had not been repealed.

        (7)         The name of a person deemed to have been registered under this Act by virtue of subsection (4), (5) or (6) shall, without payment of a registration fee, be entered in the appropriate register under this Act.

        (8)         The registration under this Act of a person who had given an undertaking (that was in force immediately before the commencement of subsection (1)) to the former board pursuant to section 25A(1) or 26(3) of the repealed Act shall be subject to a condition requiring him to comply with that undertaking.

        (9)         Where a person whose name was removed from a register under the repealed Act for any reason and whose name had not, before the commencement of subsection (1), been reinstated on that register applies for registration under this Act, the Board may deal with the application as though it were an application for reinstatement under this Act.