Chiropodists Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

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CHIROPODISTS.

No. 65 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend the Chiropodists Act, 1957.

[Assented to 5th December, 1967.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Chiropodists Short titto and

Act Amendment Act, 1967. citation.

(2) In this Act the Chiropodists Act, 1957 is

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Chiropodists Act, 1957-1967,

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amended. 2. Section three of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by deleting the passage, ", or by any other methods as may be proclaimed," in lines three and four of the interpretation, " 'chiropody' ";
(b)	by deleting the words, "and are included in the curriculum laid down in the Rules made under this Act" in lines eight and nine of the interpretation, " 'chiropody'"; and
(c)	by deleting the interpretation, " 'pro- claimed method' ".

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amended. 3. Subsection (1) of section eight of the princi-

pal Act is amended by deleting paragraph (g).

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amended. 4. Section ten of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by adding immediately after the section number, "10.", the subsection designation, "(1)";
(b)	by substituting for the words, "establishes to the satisfaction of the Board that he was

bona fide engaged and is competent" in

lines one, two and three of paragraph (b),

the words, "was bona fide engaged";

(c) by substituting for the word, "three" in line five of paragraph (b), the word, "five"; and

(d) by adding subsections as follow—

(2) Where the Board

(a)	refuses to register a person as a chiropodist;
(b)	causes the name of a chiropodist to be removed from the register;

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(c)	refuses to restore to the register the name of a person whose name has previously been re- moved from the register; or
(d)	refuses to issue or cancels, a licence to practise chiropody,

the person aggrieved by the decision of the Board may, within three months after the date of the decision appeal against that decision to a Court of Petty Sessions constituted by a Stipendiary Magistrate.

(3) On the hearing of an appeal against a decision of the Board, the Court of Petty Sessions may affirm the decision of the Board or allow the appeal, and the Board shall give effect to the decision of the Court according to its tenor.

The procedure of a Court of Petty Sessions in relation to an appeal made under this section shall be as prescribed by the Rules of Court, or in the absence of those Rules, as the Court determines, and at the hearing of any appeal the Court may make such order as to costs as it thinks fit. .

(4)

5. Section fourteen of the principal Act is reple4aled.

repealed.

6. The principal Act is amended by adding after a 17 added.

section sixteen a section as follows—

17. In order to resolve any doubt as to the Validity of Board re

validity of the constitution of the Board and its appoint-

functions, it is hereby declared that all ments, etc.

appointments made or purported to have been made of members of the Board, and all func- tions which have been discharged or which

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purport to have been discharged by the Board pursuant to the provisions of this Act, since the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty and which but for this section, may have been of doubtful validity are ratified as lawful and valid. .