Medical Act Amendment Act 1950 (WA)

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MEDICAL.

14° Geo. VI., No. XXI.

No. 21 of 1950.

AN ACT to amend the Medical Act, 1894-1946.

[Assented to 29th November , 19501

BE it enacted by the King's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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:—

This Act may be cited as the Medical Act Amendment Act, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Medical Act, 1894-1946 (Act No. 36 of 1894, as reprinted with amendments to and including Act No. 51 of 1940, incorporated pursuant to the pro- visions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia, 1943, and further amended by Acts Nos. 22 of 1945 and 8 of 1946), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. Short title.

1.

2. The principal Act, as amended by this Act, Teatirtietat Act as

may be cited as the Medical Act, 1894-1950.

amended by

this Act.

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S. 11

amended. 3. Section eleven of the principal Act is amended

by

(a)	adding after the word "in" in line four of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the words "Great Britain, Northern Ireland";
(b)	repealing subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1);
(c)	substituting for the numeral "ii" in line two of subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the numeral "i";
(d)	adding after the word "twelve" in line three of subsection (2), the words "or a certifi- cate of auxiliary service registration under section twelve A".

S. 12A

added. 4. The principal Act is amended by adding the

following section:-

Certificate

of auxiliary	12A. (1) Where the Governor is satisfied that a duly qualified medical practitioner or a sufficient number of duly qualified medical prac- titioners is or are not available to provide a medical or surgical service, he may from time to time by Proclamation declare the service to be an auxiliary service in the whole or part of the State.
service
registration.

From time to time the Governor may by Proclamation vary the provisions and operation of a Proclamation made and promulgated pur- suant to the power conferred by this section, by cancelling those provisions and that opera- tion wholly or in part absolutely, or by cancelling those provisions and that operation wholly or in part and substituting other provisions and their operation for those so cancelled.

(2)

(3)

(a) The provisions of subsections (2) to subsection (13), both inclusive, of section twelve of this Act shall apply in respect of a service so declared by Proclamation to be an auxiliary service as if they were repeated in this section, with the adaptations contained in the next succeeding paragraph.

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(b) The adaptations referred to in the last

preceding paragraph are as follows:—

(i)    For the word "area" wherever it appears substitute the word "service".

(ii)    For the words "a region" or "region" wherever they appear, substitute the words "an auxiliary service" or "auxili- ary service," as the case requires.

(iii)    For the words "a certificate of regional registration" wherever they appear, substitute the words "a certificate of auxiliary service registration".

(iv)    For the words "for the inhabitants of the proclaimed region" in lines four and five of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section twelve, substitute the words "for providing the proclaimed auxiliary service".

(v)    For the words "within the region" in line five of subsection (11) of section twelve, substitute the words "to the extent only, but to no greater extent than that required for the auxiliary service".

(vi)    For the words "outside the boundaries of the region" in lines three and four of subsection (12) of section twelve, sub- stitute the words "to an extent greater than that required for the auxiliary service".