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This legislation has been repealed.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Practitioners Act 1919 is repealed.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registered under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of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the repealed Act.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registered under the repealed Act as a specialist immediately before the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section 29C(3) of the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of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the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1)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restrictions and conditions to which his registration under the repealed Act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expire when his registration under the repealed Act would have expired if that
Act had not been repealed.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the former board pursuant to section 25A(1) or 26(3) of the repealed Act shall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whose name was removed from a register under the repealed Act for any reason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.