Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1958 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 13 of 1958.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Medical Practitioners Registration

Ordinance 1930-1956.

T THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Common- X, wealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1955.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of June, 1958.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

DONALD A. CAMERON

Minister of State for Health acting for and on behalf of the Minister of State for the Interior.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION

ORDINANCE 1958.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical short me

Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1958.*

(2.) The Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1930-1956f is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

2942/58.—PRICE 3D.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi- nance, may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1930-1958.

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 Section twenty-six of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

" 26.—(1.) Where an honour is or has been conferred by Additional

the Sovereign on a person who is a registered medical practi- KSedfny	tioner, the Board shall cause particulars of that honour to be the Register-
inserted in the entry in the Register relating to that medical practitioner.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 31st July, 1958.

t Ordinance No. 13, 1930, as amended by No. 7, 1931; No. 23, 1933; No. 27, 1937;

No. 2, 1939; No. 4, 1950; No. 9, 1954; and No. 5, 1956.

" (2.) Where a registered medical practitioner obtains or possesses a qualification that is not included in the entry in the Register relating to him, the Board may, if it approves the qualification as a suitable qualification connected with the practice of medicine and as being suitable for inclusion in the Register, cause particulars of that qualification to be inserted in the entry.	I
" (3.) Particulars inserted in the Register in pursuance of this section shall be inserted without payment of an additional fee.
" (4.) In this section,' qualification ' includes a qualification testified to by a testimonial, diploma, licence or certificate from a university, college or other body or consisting of a fellowship or membership of a college or society of physicians, surgeons or other medical practitioners.".

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

iSm^Mdon" inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) , after the word other grounds. "q u a i i f i c a t ion", the words "for registration under section

twenty-two of this Ordinance ".

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUB, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.