Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) - Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Amendment (Medical Council of NSW) Regulation 2013 (NSW)

New South Wales

Health Practitioner Regulation (New South

Wales) Amendment (Medical Council of

NSW) Regulation 2013

under the

Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW)

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW).

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to change the composition of the Medical Council of New South Wales:

(a)	by revising the list of 8 medical colleges which may nominate a member, and
(b)	by reducing the number of members nominated by the Minister from 6 to 5, and
(c)	by adding another member to be nominated by the Minister from among the members of specified medical colleges, and
(d)	by making transitional arrangements for an existing member.

This Regulation is made under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), including sections 41E (1) (a) (i) and 247A (the general regulation-making power).

Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Amendment

(Medical Council of NSW) Regulation 2013

under the

Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW)

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales)
Amendment (Medical Council of NSW) Regulation 2013.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 January 2014 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Health Practitioner Regulation
(New South Wales) Regulation 2010

[1]      Schedule 1A Membership of relevant Councils

Omit clause 3 (2) (e) (vii) and (viii). Insert instead:

(vii)      The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine,

(viii)      The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, and

[2]      Schedule 1A, Part 2, clause 3 (2) (f)

Omit “6”. Insert instead “5”.

[3]      Schedule 1A, Part 2, clause 3 (2) (g), (3) and (4)

Insert after subclause (2) (f):

, and

(g)

one is to be a medical practitioner, nominated by the Minister, who is a member of one or more of the following bodies:

(i)	The Australasian College of Dermatologists,
(ii)	The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine,

(iii)	The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Opthalmologists,
(iv)	The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists,
(v)	The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.

(3)

The Minister may consult with the bodies in subclause (2) (g) for the purpose of nominating the medical practitioner, but failure to do so does not invalidate any nomination made under that paragraph.

(4)

The member who:

(a)	is a registered medical practitioner, and
(b)	holds specialist registration in the specialty of anaesthesia, and
(c)	was nominated by the Minister under subclause (2) (f) as in force immediately before 1 January 2014,

is, for the remainder of his term, taken to have been nominated by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists under subclause (2) (e) (viii).