Medical Act Amendment Act 1946 (WA)

No. 8.] Medical. [1946.

MEDICAL.

10° GEO. VI., No. VIII.

No. 8 of 1946.

AN ACT to amend section eleven of the Medical Act,

1894-1940.

[Assented to 13th November, 1946.]

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

Short till.. 1. This Act may be cited as the Medical Act Amend-

et. No. $1 of	/940, 2.2. went Act, 1946, and shall be read as one with the Medical Act, 1894-1940 (No. 36 of 1894 as reprinted with amend- ments in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parlia- ment of Western Australia), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.
Amendment of 2. Section eleven of the principal Act is amended by 11.

inserting therein after subsection (2) a new subsection

as follows:—

(3) Where, under the provisions of the National Security (Alien Doctors) Regulations of the Com- monwealth, a person has been duly licensed to practise medicine in all branches of medical science, and has in fact practised in the State under the authority of and in accordance with the qualifica- tions and conditions (if any) contained in such license, then the period, or aggregate of all periods, during which he shall have so practised in the State in accordance with such license shall count towards, and be taken into consideration for the purpose of calculating the period or periods aggregating seven years or more referred to in subsection (2) of this section.

Citation of

principal Act 3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

as amended. cited as the Medical Act, 1894-1946.