Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1967 (ACT)

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION

No. 14 of 1967

An Ordinance to amend the Medical Practitioners

Registration Ordinance 1930-1966.

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

Registration Ordinance 1967.*

(2.) The Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1930-1966,

as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Medical	Practi­
tioners Registration Ordinance 1930-1967.
2. After section 28 of the Medical Practitioners Registration	Ordi­

nance 1930-1966 the following section is inserted:—

" 2 8 A . — ( 1 . ) Where the Board, upon an application made on behalf of a person by a body engaged or interested in teaching or research in medicine or surgery, is satisfied that—

(a)	the person is qualified by a law in force in a State or Terri­ tory of the Commonwealth or in another country to practise medicine or surgery, whether or not he is entitled to apply for registration under this Ordinance; and
(b)	the person is, by reason of his specialized medical or sur­ gical knowledge, experience and skill in a branch of medi­ cine or surgery, competent to undertake, or assist in, practising, teaching or research in that branch of medicine or surgery,

the Board may issue to that person a permit to give or perform such medical services in that branch of medicine or surgery as the Board determines and specifies in the permit.

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

" (2.) A permit issued under this section remains in force, unless sooner cancelled, for such period, not exceeding twelve months, as the Board determines and specifies in the permit.
" (3. ) The Board may, at any time, by notice in writing to the holder, cancel a permit issued under this section.
" (4.) The holder of a permit in force under this section is entitled to practise medicine or surgery in pursuance of the permit as if he were a registered medical practitioner, and, for that purpose, for the period during which the permit is in force, he shall be deemed to be a registered medical practitioner.".

* Made on 12 May 1967; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 24 May 1967.

Ordinance N o . 13, 1930, as amended by N o . 7, 1931; N o . 23, 1933; N o . 27, 1937; N o . 2, 1939; N o . 4, 1950;

N o . 9, 1954; N o . 5, 1956; N o . 13, 1958; N o . 2, 1962; N o . 3, 1963; N o . 1, 1964; and N o . 19, 1966.

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