Health Professions Boards (Procedures) (Amendment) Act 1988 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Health Professions Boards (Procedures) (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

No. 59 of 1988

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 31 August 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Ordinance 1981

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.1

Commencement

2.  This Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as is fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

Principal Ordinance

3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Ordinance 1981.2

Interpretation

4.  Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting “Registration” from paragraph (c) of the definition of “Board”;

(b)by inserting “or Chairperson, as the case requires,” before “of a Board” in the definition of “Chairman”;

(c)by inserting “or Deputy Chairperson, as the case requires,” before “of a Board” in the definition of “Deputy Chairman”;

(d)by inserting the following definition in its appropriate alphabetical position:

“ ‘elected member’ means a member of the Board elected in accordance with the Election Ordinance;”;

(e)by omitting “Nurses Registration Ordinance 1933” from the definition of “Nurses Ordinance” and substituting “Nurses Ordinance 1988”; and

(f)by omitting paragraph (c) of the definition of “proceeding” and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)in relation to the Nurses Board—an inquiry by the Board under section 38 of the Nurses Ordinance;”.

Insertion

5.  After section 5 of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted:

Eligibility for appointment

“5A.  A person is not eligible for appointment as a member if the person is an elected member or is a candidate for an election under the Election Ordinance.”.

Term of office of elected members

6.  Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting subsection (5).

Vacation of office

7.  Section 11 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (4) (c) “Registration”; and

(b)by inserting in paragraph (4) (c) “or enrolled” after “registered”.

Decisions of Boards

8.  Section 31 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from subsection (1) all the words after “proceeding” (last occurring) and substituting “a notice in writing setting out the decision and stating the reasons for the decision”.

Repeal of section 42

9.  Section 42 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 September 1988.

2. No. 46, 1981 as amended by No. 85, 1982; No. 64, 1983; No. 68, 1986.