PUBLIC HEALTH (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2016 (NO. 19 OF 2016) - SECT 6

PUBLIC HEALTH (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2016 (NO. 19 OF 2016) - SECT 6

6 .         Section 3 amended

        (1)         In section 3(1) delete the definitions of:

Analytical Committee

environmental health officer

Executive Director, Personal Health

Executive Director, Public Health

medical officer

public health official

        (2)         In section 3(1) insert in alphabetical order:

        Analytical Committee has the meaning given in section 247AA;

        authorised officer has the meaning given in subsection (2A);

        Chief Health Officer has the meaning given in the Public Health Act 2016 section 4(1);

        nurse means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the nursing and midwifery profession whose name is entered on the Register of Nurses kept under that Law;

        (3)         In section 3(1) in the definition of apparatus for the treatment of sewage delete “Executive Director, Public Health” and insert:

                Chief Health Officer

        (4)         After section 3(1) insert:

        (2A)         A reference in a provision of this Act to an authorised officer is a reference to a person designated as an authorised officer under the Public Health Act 2016 section 24(1) whose designation has effect for the purposes of that provision.