Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1997 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Medical Practitioners (Amendment)
Act 1997

No. 109 of 1997

An Act to amend the Medical Practitioners Act 1930

[Notified in ACT Gazette S420: 24 December 1997]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1997.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Medical Practitioners Act 1930.1

Constitution of Board

4.  Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “3” and substituting “5”; and

(b)by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsections:

“(2)  Of the members appointed under paragraph (1) (a), 2 shall be persons who are not entitled to be registered by—

(a)a Board within the meaning of the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Act 1981; or

(b)the Dental Technicians and Dental Prosthetists Board.

“(2A)  Of the 2 members referred to in subsection (2), 1 shall be a legal practitioner.

“(2B)  A person shall not be eligible for appointment to any of the  remaining 3 positions as a member unless—

(a)he or she is a registered medical practitioner; and

(b)he or she was, at all times during the period of 3 years immediately preceding his or her appointment, entitled, under the law of a State or Territory, to practise as a medical practitioner in that State or Territory.”.

NOTE

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1995.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 2 December 1997]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1997