Health Services Amendment (Paramedic Qualifications) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Health Services Amendment (Paramedic

Qualifications) Regulation 2015

under the

Health Services Act 1997

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

Regulation under the Health Services Act 1997.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe the qualifications that allow a person to hold himself or herself general regulation-making power).

out to be a paramedic.

Health Services Amendment (Paramedic Qualifications) Regulation 2015 [NSW]

Health Services Amendment (Paramedic Qualifications)

Regulation 2015

under the

Health Services Act 1997

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Health Services Amendment (Paramedic Qualifications)
Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 February 2016 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Health Services Regulation 2013

Part 4, Division 2A

Insert after Division 2:

Division 2A Paramedics

19A	Qualifications
(1) The following qualifications are prescribed for the purposes of section 67ZDA (2) (a) of the Act:

(a)	a Bachelor of Paramedicine or a Graduate Diploma of Paramedicine conferred by a university,
(b)	a nationally-recognised Diploma of Paramedicine issued by a registered training organisation.

(2) In this clause:
Paramedicine includes Clinical Practice (Paramedic), Emergency
Health (Paramedic), Health Science (majoring in Paramedicine),
Paramedic Practice, Paramedic Science and Science (majoring in
Paramedicine).
registered training organisation means an NVR registered training
organisation within the meaning of the National Vocational Education
and Training Regulator Act 2011 of the Commonwealth.
university means a university listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Higher
Education Act 2001 or a university listed in Part 1 of Schedule 13 to the
Education Act 1989 of New Zealand.