Medical Practitioners Registration Act (No 2) 1967 (ACT)

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MEDICAL

PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (NO. 2)

No. 15 of 1967

An Ordinance to amend the Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1930-1966, as amended by

the Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1967.
1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance (No. 2 ) 1967.*

(2.) The Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance

1930-1966, as amended by the Medical Practitioners Registra tion Ordinance 1967, is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3 . ) Section 1 of the Medical Practitioners Registration

*Ordinance*	1967 is amended by omitting sub-section (2 . ) .
(4 . ) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi nance, may be cited as the Medical Practitioners	*Registration*
*Ordinance* 1930-1967.

2. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting the definition of " the Director-General" and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

"' the Director' means the person for the time being occupying, or performing the duties of, the office of Commonwealth Director of Health for the Territory;".
3. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended— (a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word

Ordinance N o . 14, 1967.
" Director-General" and inserting in its stead
the word " Director "; and

(b) by omitting sub-sections (3.) and (4.) and insert
ing in their stead the following sub-section:—
" (3.) The Director shall be the Chairman of
the Board.".

4. Section 11 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:—

" (3.) A person who attends for the purpose of giving
evidence before the Board is entitled to receive such fees and

allowances (if any) as the Chairman or, if the Chairman is

* Made on 26 May 1967; notified in the Commonwealth

Gazette and commenced on 8 June 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 No. 19, 1966.

absent from the meeting of the Board, the Deputy Chairman thinks fit to allow in accordance with the scale of fees and allowances prescribed from time to time, for the purposes of section twenty-seven of the Public Works Committee Act 1913- 1966, by the Public Works Committee Regulations.

" (4.) Fees and allowances payable to a person in accord ance with the last preceding sub-section are payable—

(a) if the person attended before the Board, whether on summons or not, by reason of a request by a per son other than an officer of the Department of Health—by the person at whose request the first- mentioned person attended; or
(b) in any other case—by the Commonwealth.".

5. Section 27 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

" 27. A registered medical practitioner who changes his professional address shall forthwith give notice of the changed address by post to the Chairman.".

6. Section 39A of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting the words " one month" (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words " three months ".

7. Section 39B of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "one month" and inserting in their stead the words " three months ".

8. Section 41 of the Principal Ordinance is amended— (a) by omitting from sub-section (2A.) the word
" Director-General " (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word " Director "; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub " (4.) A person (not being a party) who attends before the Minister for the purpose of giving evidence is entitled to receive such fees and allowances (if any) as the Minister thinks fit to allow in accordance with the scale of fees and allowances prescribed from time to time, for the purposes of section twenty-seven of the Public Works Committee Act 1913-1966, by the Public Works Committee Regulations. sections:—
" (5.) Fees and allowances payable to a per- son in accordance with the last preceding sub- section are payable by the Commonwealth.
" (6.) In this section, ' party' means the per- son by whom, or against whom, the charge the subject of the inquiry has been made.".

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(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub " (4.) A person (not being a party) who attends before the Minister for the purpose of giving evidence is entitled to receive such fees and allowances (if any) as the Minister thinks fit to allow in accordance with the scale of fees and allowances prescribed from time to time, for the purposes of section twenty-seven of the Public Works Committee Act 1913-1966, by the Public Works Committee Regulations.	sections:—
" (5.) Fees and allowances payable to a per- son in accordance with the last preceding sub- section are payable by the Commonwealth.
" (6.) In this section, ' party' means the per- son by whom, or against whom, the charge the subject of the inquiry has been made.".