NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRACTICE ACT 2008 - SECT 29

This legislation has been repealed.

NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRACTICE ACT 2008 - SECT 29

29—Registration on students register

        (1)         A person is not entitled to undertake a course of study that provides qualifications for registration on the nurses register or the midwives register, or enrolment on the nurses roll, unless the person is registered on the students register.

        (2)         A person is not entitled to provide nursing or midwifery care as part of a course of study that is being undertaken by the person in a place outside the State and provides qualifications for registration, enrolment or some other form of accreditation as a nurse or midwife under the law of that place unless the person is registered on the students register.

        (3)         A person is eligible for registration on the students register if the person, on application to the Board, satisfies the Board that he or she—

            (a)         genuinely requires registration on the register—

                  (i)         to enable the person to undertake a course of study that provides qualifications for registration or enrolment under this Act; or

                  (ii)         to enable the person to provide nursing or midwifery care as part of a course of study that is being undertaken by the person in a place outside the State and provides qualifications for registration, enrolment or some other form of accreditation as a nurse or midwife under the law of that place; and

            (b)         is medically fit to provide nursing or midwifery care (as the case requires); and

            (c)         is a fit and proper person to be registered on the register.

        (4)         It is a condition of registration on the students register that the student may only provide nursing or midwifery care—

            (a)         as part of the course of study for which registration on the students register is required; and

            (b)         under the supervision of a nurse or midwife.

        (5)         If a person who applies for registration, or reinstatement of registration, on the students register is not, in the opinion of the Board, medically fit to provide nursing or midwifery care (as the case requires), the Board may register the person on the register in pursuance of this subsection ("limited student registration") and impose 1 or more of the following conditions on the registration:

            (a)         a condition limiting the nursing or midwifery care that the person may provide;

            (b)         a condition limiting the period during which the registration will have effect;

            (c)         a condition requiring that the person be supervised in the provision of nursing or midwifery care by a particular person or by a person of a particular class;

            (d)         such other conditions as the Board thinks fit.