Medical Practitioners Act 1983 (SA)

South Australia

Medical Practitioners Act 1983

An Act to provide for the registration of medical practitioners; to regulate the practice of medicine for the purpose of maintaining high standards of competence and conduct by medical practitioners in South Australia; to repeal the Medical Practitioners Act 1919; and for other purposes.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Act 1983.

2—Commencement

1. (1)

   This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

2. (2)

   The Governor may, in a proclamation fixing a day for this Act to come into operation, suspend the operation of specified provisions of this Act until a subsequent day fixed in the proclamation, or a day to be fixed by subsequent proclamation.

3—Arrangement of Act

This Act is arranged as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

Part 2—Administration

Division 1—The Medical Board

Division 2—The Medical Practitioners Professional Conduct Tribunal

Part 3—Registration of medical practitioners

Division 1—Restrictions relating to the practice of medicine by unregistered persons

Division 2—Registration

Division 3—Limited registration

Division 4—Provisional registration

Division 5—Provisions relating to the practice of medicine by companies

Division 6—General

Part 7—Proceedings before the Board and the Tribunal

Division 1—Proceedings before the Board

Division 2—Proceedings before the Tribunal

Part 5—Appeals to the Supreme Court

Part 6—Miscellaneous

4—Repeal and transitional provision

1. (1)

   The Medical Practitioners Act 1919 is repealed.

2. (2)

   All property, rights and liabilities vested in or attached to the former board immediately before the commencement of subsection (1) shall, upon the commencement of that subsection, vest in or attach to the board.

3. (3)

   A reference in an instrument (whether or not of a statutory nature) to the former Board shall, where the context admits, be construed as a reference to the Board.

4. (4)

   A person registered under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been registered under this Act upon the conditions (if any) to which his registration was subject under the repealed Act.

5. (5)

   A person—

   1. (a)

      registered under the repealed Act as a specialist immediately before the commencement of subsection (1); or

   2. (b)

      in respect of whom a certificate of exemption was in force under section 29C(3) of the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1),

shall be deemed to have been registered as a specialist under this Act upon the conditions (if any) to which the registration or certificate of exemption was subject.

1. (6)

   A person in relation to whom a certificate of limited registration was in force under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been registered under this Act and his registration shall—

   1. (a)

      be subject to a condition requiring him to comply with the limitations, restrictions and conditions to which his registration under the repealed Act was subject; and

   2. (b)

      expire when his registration under the repealed Act would have expired if that Act had not been repealed.

2. (7)

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