MEDICAL ACT 1894

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART I -- Preliminary  

• 1 Short title and commencement
 
• 3 Interpretation

PART II -- Medical Board and professional standards committee  

• 4 Constitution and proceedings of Medical Board
 
• 5 Governor may remove member
 
• 6 Rules and regulations
 
• 7 Officers of the Board
 
• 8 Board may sue
 
• 8AA Professional standards committee
 
• 8A Protection of Board and Registrar from liability
 
• 9 Examination of persons and documents by Board, and public nature of proceedings

PART III -- Registration  

• 10 Register to be kept by the Registrar
 
• 11 Persons entitled to be registered and special provisions for bodies corporate
 
• 11AA Applicants to be competent and of good character
 
• 11AB Armed forces exempted from fees in certain circumstances
 
• 11AC Entitlement to conditional registration for interns
 
• 11AD Entitlement to conditional registration for supervised clinical practice
 
• 11AE Entitlement to general or conditional registration based on registration elsewhere in Australia
 
• 11AF Conditional registration at the discretion of the Board
 
• 11AG Conditional registration for general practice in remote and rural WA
 
• 11A Determination of specialties and registration of specialists
 
• 12B Provisional certificate may be granted
 
• 12BA Interim constraint on practice
 
• 12BB Allegation to be made
 
• 12BC Power to make interim constraint additional to other powers
 
• 12C Appointment of investigator
 
• 12D Report of investigator
 
• 12E Powers of investigator
 
• 12F Warrant to enter premises
 
• 12G Issue of warrant
 
• 12H Execution of warrant
 
• 12I Incriminating information, questions, or documents
 
• 12J Failure to comply with investigation
 
• 12K Obstruction of investigator
 
• 13 Inquiries into, and striking off and suspension of, medical practitioner
 
• 13A Medical practitioner struck off or suspended in another State or Territory
 
• 14 Copy of register to be published
 
• 15 Register may be altered to insert new or additional qualification
 
• 16 Practitioner on registration entitled to certificate
 
• 16A Annual practice fees

PART IV -- Miscellaneous  

• 17 Offences to do with registration
 
• 17A Making false statement to the professional standards committee
 
• 18 Only a medical practitioner to hold certain appointments
 
• 19 Only a medical practitioner to practise or profess to practise medicine
 
• 20 Offence of publishing prohibited advertisement
 
• 21 Medical practitioner may sue for fees, etc.
 
• 21A Treatment by means of radium or X-ray
 
• 21B Medical practitioners to arrange consultation in certain cases
 
• 21C Restriction on administration of anaesthetics in certain cases
 
• 21CA Approval for medical call services
 
• 21CB Register of medical call services
 
• 21CC Changes to be notified
 
• 21CD Cancellation and suspension of approval
 
• 21D Application of funds of Board
 
• 21E Accounts
 
• 21F Audit
 
• 21G Annual report
 
• 22 Proceedings for offences etc.
 
• 22A Constitution of State Administrative Tribunal under this Act
 
• 23 Interpretation Act 1918
 
• 24 Review of Act
• Compilation table