Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1933 (ACT)

I	THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT OF
[Extract from Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. 54, dated

28th September, 1933.]

GOVERNMENT.

No. 23 of 1933.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Medical Practitioners Registration

Ordinance 1930-1931.

BE it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal	Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 and the Scat of
Government {Administration) Act 1910-1933, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Prac- short title.

titioners Registration Ordinance 1933.

(2.) The Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1930- 1931 is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1930-1933.

2. Section nine of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

has been guilty of misbehaviour or is incapacitated, remove the JJ}J:™ber from " 9. The Governor-General may, if satisfied that any member Removal of

member from office.".

3. Section thirty of the Principal Ordinance is amended by cancellation of

shall be final and conclusive and without appeal". other grounds.	adding at the end of sub-section (4.) the words "whose decision S^andon™
4. After section thirty-nine of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted:—

" 39A. A registered medical practitioner shall be entitled to sue Registered

or other remuneration for his professional services whether medical ™*3y ™°for	in any Court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of his fees practitioner
or surgical, and it shall be sufficient to state in the particulars of demand the words " for medical services" which shall include every demand for medical or surgical aid including medicines when supplied by the plaintiff to defendant.".

5. Section forty-one of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Power of

omitting from sub-section (2.) the words "and may be enforced in £rmine°
the same manner as the order of a Court of summary jurisdiction " charees.

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and inserting in their stead the words " The amount specified in any such order shall be a debt due to the Crown and may be sued for and recovered by action inst i tuted by any officer authorized in wri t ing by the Director-General of Heal th in any Court of Pe t ty Sessions as a civil debt recoverable summarily ".

penalty for	6. After section forty-two of the Pr incipal Ordinance the fol-
otfences where _ .	, • • • , !
no special	lowing section is inser ted:—
penalty	•
provided.	" 42A. Any person who commits any breach of the x'rovisions of this Ordinance, for which a penal ty is not specially provided, shall be liable on conviction to a penal ty not exceeding Fi f ty pounds.".

Dated this twenty-seventh day of September, 1933.

ISAAC A. I S A A C S Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

C. W. C. MARR

for Minister of State for the Interior .

By Authori ty: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.