Hairdressers Registration Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

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HAIRDRESSERS REGISTRATION.

No. 21 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the Hairdressers Registration

Act, 1946-1953.

[Assented to 1st October, 1965.]

HE 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:—

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1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Hairdressers Registration Act Amendment Act, 1965.	and citation.
(2) In this Act the Hairdressers Registration Act, 1946-1953, is referred to as the principal Act.
(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Hairdressers Registration Act, 1946-1965.

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Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

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amended. 3. Section two of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the interpretation "apprentice" the following interpretation

"apprentice" includes a person who is entitled to a rate of pay prescribed for an apprentice under any award made under the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912, that relates to hairdressing; .

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repealed and 4. Section three of the principal Act is repealed

re-enacted.	and re-enacted as follows-
Application

of Act.	3. (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, this Act applies only within twenty-five miles from the General Post Office at Perth.
(2) The Governor may from time to time, on the recommendation of the Minister and the Board, by proclamation declare that this Act shall apply, as from the date specified in the proclamation, to such other area or areas of the State as is or are so specified.
(3) A proclamation made under this section may be cancelled or from time to time varied by subsequent proclamation. .
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amended. 5. Section twelve of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by repealing paragraph (c) of subsection (1);
(b)	by substituting for subsection (2) the following subsection

(2) Where this Act applies to any area

of the State by virtue of a proclamation

made pursuant to section three of this

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Act, a person who desires to practice hairdressing of any prescribed class or classes of hairdressing in that area and who is not already registered under this Act in respect of the class or classes, may apply to be so registered in respect of the class or classes and shall be entitled to be registered if and when he has satisfied the Board that he

(a)	is a person of good character; and
(b)	has completed the appropriate prescribed course of training and passed t h e appropriate prescribed examinations; or
(c)	has been bona fide engaged in

the State in the practice of hairdressing in the class or classes either as a principal or employee

(i)   during a continuous period of not less than five years immediately preceding the date he so applies, and he so applies within a period of twelve months next following the date of the application of this Act to that area; or

(ii)    during a n y continuous period that is less than five years preceding the date he so applies and has passed such examination as the Board prescribes. .

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6. Section fourteen of the principal Act is amended.

amended

(a) by substituting for the passage, "Save as provided in subsection (3) of this section there" in lines one and two of subsection (1), the word, "There";

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(b) by repealing subsection (2);

(c) by repealing subsection (3);

(d) by repealing and re-enacting subsection (4) as follows

(4) (a) Every person registered under this Act, who is practising hairdressing shall pay to the Board during the month of January in each year, a registration fee as prescribed, and if any such person makes default in paying that fee the registration of that person may be suspended by the Board.

(b) Where the Board suspends the registration of a person pursuant to this section such suspension shall be annulled if-

(i)    the fee as prescribed together with an additional fee of one pound one shilling is paid to the Board; and

(ii)    the Board is satisfied with the explanation of that person as to the reason why the default occurred and the explanation is verified by statutory declaration, if so required by the Board..

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amended. 7. Subsection (1) of section fifteen of this Act

is amended-

k a) by substituting for the words, "commence- ment of this Act" in line two, the words, "application of this Act to any area of the State"; and

(b) by adding before the word, "unless" in the third last line the words, "in that area".

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8. Section sixteen of the principal Act is U:nded.

amended

(a) by adding after the word, "thereunder" being the last word in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), the passage

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(c)	who before or after registration, was or has been convicted of an offence that in the opinion of the Board, renders him unfit to practise as a hairdresser; or
(d)	who, for any other reason, is in the opinion of the Board, no longer a fit and proper person to practise as a hairdresser;

(b) by adding after the word, "annulled" being the last word in subsection (2), the words, "but where the registration of a person has been cancelled or suspended for a continuous period of eight years or more that person is not entitled to be registered again under this Act or to practise as a hairdresser until he has passed an examination prescribed by the Board";

(c) by adding after the word, "appeal" in line two of subsection (6), the words, "by way of rehearing".

9. Paragraph (c) of section twenty-one of the I:Li,'

principal Act is amended by deleting the words, "but such fees shall not exceed the sum of fifty pounds per annum for any member of the Board" in lines two, three and four.