Nurses Act 1991 Regulation relating to exemptions from registration requirements (1993-612) [GG No 138 of 17.12.1993] (NSW)

1993—No. 612

NURSES ACT 1991—REGULATION

(Relating to exemptions from registration requirements)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 138 of 17 December 1993]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council,
and in pursuance of the Nurses Act 1991, has been pleased to make the

Regulation set forth hereunder.

Ron Phillips
Minister for Health.

The Nurses Regulation 1992 is amended by inserting in clause 5A (b) after the words “completed a course in” the words “general nursing, mental retardation nursing or”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation to amend the Nurses Regulation 1992 to widen the case for exemption prescribed for the purposes of section 10 (1) (j) of the Nurses Act 1991 (relating to registration as a nurse).

The Nurses Regulation 1992, as amended, will prescribe three types of courses on the basis of which the Nurses Registration Board may exempt persons applying for registration in List “A” of the Register of Nurses from meeting the course and award requirements of section 18 (a) of the Nurses Act 1991.

The case for exemption will now cover nurses already on List “B” of the Register who have successfully completed a course in general nursing, mental retardation nursing or psychiatric nursing. The courses must be ones recognised by the Board under the repealed Nurses Registration Act 1953, though not recognised in a formal sense under the 1991 Act, as leading to registration in List “A”. They must have been completed by 31 December 1992.

The courses include psychiatric nursing which is the course prescribed by clause 5A of the Nurses Regulation 1992, as presently worded.