CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 - SECT 5PA

CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 - SECT 5PA

5PA .         Term used: health professional

                In this Division —

        health professional means —

            (a)         a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in any of the following health professions —

                  (i)         Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practice;

                  (ii)         Chinese medicine;

                  (iii)         chiropractic;

                  (iv)         dental;

                  (v)         medical;

                  (vi)         medical radiation practice;

                  (vii)         midwifery;

            (viia)         nursing;

                  (viii)         occupational therapy;

                  (ix)         optometry;

                  (x)         osteopathy;

            (xa)         paramedicine;

                  (xi)         pharmacy;

                  (xii)         physiotherapy;

                  (xiii)         podiatry;

                  (xiv)         psychology;

                or

            (b)         any other person who practises a discipline or profession in the health area that involves the application of a body of learning.

        [Section 5PA inserted: No. 43 of 2004 s. 5; amended: No. 28 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 29 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 30 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 31 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 32 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 33 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 42 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 21 of 2006 Sch. 3 cl. 1; No. 50 of 2006 Sch. 3 cl. 2; No. 22 of 2008 Sch. 3 cl. 8; No. 25 of 2008 s. 16; No. 35 of 2010 s. 41; No. 4 of 2018 s. 103(2).]