Nurses Registration Act 1953 Regulation specifying the circumstances in which a nurse registered interstate is not required to be registered in NSW (1990-225) [GG No 51 of 20.4.1990] (NSW)

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NURSES REGISTRATION ACT 1953 – REGULATION

(Specifying the circumstances in which a nurse registered

interstate is not required to be registered in N.S.W.)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 51 of 20 April 1990]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, on the recommendation of the Nurses Registration Board constituted under the Nurses Registration Act 1953, and in pursuance of the that Act, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

PETER COLLINS

Minister for Health.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 20 April 1990.

Amendment

2. The Nurses Registration Regulations are amended by inserting

after Regulation 34 the following Regulation:

When registration not required

34A. For the purposes of section 16B of the Act, the prescribed

functions are:

(a) functions exercised to meet the needs of organ transplant patients and patients donating organs; and

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(b) functions exercised as a member of a retrieval team; and

(c) functions exercised during the period a nurse is on escort duty.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe the functions which a nurse registered elsewhere in Australia may perform in New South Wales (for a period not exceeding 24 hours) without having to be registered in this State.