Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1953 (NSW)

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT)

ACT.

Act No. 22, 1953.

An Act to make certain further provisions relating to the registration of medical practitioners; to require the payment of an annual roll fee by registered medical practitioners; for these purposes to amend the Medical Practitioners Act, 1938-1950; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 25th November, 1953.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-	lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 . (1) This Act may bo cited as the "Medical Prac- titioners (Amendment) Act, 1953".
(2) The Medical Practitioners Act, 1938, as amended by subsequent Acts and by this Act, may be
cited as the Medical Practitioners Act, 1938-1953.

2. (1) The Medical Practitioners Act, 1938-1950, is

amended—

(a)	by omitting from the proviso to subsection one of section seventeen the words "and without further examination" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "subject to such graduates complying with the normal requirements (other than requirements relating to passing through any course of studies and the passing of exam­ inations) relating to registration in that part of the British Empi re" ;
(b)	by omitting section twenty-four and by insert­ ing in lieu thereof the following section:—

24. (1) Every registered person shall, on or before the thirtieth day of June in each year pay a roll fee for the year commencing on the first day of October next following the said thirtieth day of June.

The annual roll fee shall be such amount as is prescribed in section thirty-two of this Act.

(2) Together with the roll fee the regis­ tered person shall furnish particulars of his address for entry in the register.

(3) If any registered person does not pay the prescribed roll fee on or before the said thirtieth day of June in any year, the Board shall forthwith notify him by registered letter addressed to him at the address appearing in the register, that if the fee is not paid before the thirtieth day of September next following,

fied fails to pay such fee before the said thirtieth If any registered person who has been so noti­his name will be removed from the register.

day of September, the Board shall remove his
name from the register.

(4) If the name of any registered person is removed from the register under this section, the Board shall upon application in the pre­ scribed form, restore his name to the register upon payment of such fees as are prescribed by regulations.

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The regulations may provide for the waiver of the whole or such part of the fees as the Board may in a particular case deem proper.

(5) Where the name of a registered per­ son has been removed from the register under this section, and until the name has been re­ stored thereto, the person concerned shall be deemed to be a person not registered under this Act.

(6) In this section "registered person" means a person whose name is entered in the register.

(c) (i) by inserting in paragraph (c) of section thirty-two after the word " g r a n t e d " the words " a person whose name has been re­ moved from the register pursuant to section twenty-four of this Ac t " ;

(ii)   by inserting next after the same paragraph the following new paragraph:—

(d) for the annual roll fee . . . 1 1 0

(2) The registration of any person before the com­ mencement of this Act which would have been valid had the amendment of the proviso to subsection one of section seventeen of the Medical Practitioners Act, 1938- 1950, made by paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section, been in force at the time when such registration was effected, is hereby validated.

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