Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act 1937 (WA)

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NURSES REGISTRATION.

1° AND 2° GEO. VI., No. XIV.

No. 14 of 1937.

AN ACT to amend the Nurses Registration Act, 1921,

and for purposes incidental thereto.

[Assented to 13th January, 1938.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Nurses Registration Short title.

Act Amendment Act, 1937, and shall be read as one with the Nurses Registration Act, 1921 (No. 7 of 1922), as amended by the Act No. 25 of 1922, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2. Section three of the principal Act is amended by Amendment • of s. f

adding the following at the end of subsection (1) :— princi3palo Act.

The Board shall cause the register to be kept in Register i to be kept n

three divisions, as follows:—

three divi-

sions.

(a) The names of those nurses who are generally qualified under the provisions of this Act to do all classes of nursing, except infant health nursing and midwifery nursing.

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(b) The names of those nurses who are qualified under the provisions of this Act as child- ren's nurses.

(c) The names of those nurses who are qualified under the provisions of this Act as infant health nurses.

Amendment

of s. 5 of	3. Section five of the principal Act is amended
principal Act.

(a) by adding subsections after subsection (3), as

follows :-

(4) Every person who has attained the age of twenty-one years and has completed the prescribed course of training and has passed the prescribed examination and whose train- ing has been exclusively at a children's hos- pital shall be entitled to be registered in that division of the register entitled "Children's Nurses"; and every such person shall be entitled to have her name transferred to the General division of the register when she has completed six months additional training in a hospital approved by the Board in which adult patients of both sexes are admitted.

(5) Every person who has attained the age of twenty-one years and being a trained and registered midwifery nurse, has completed the prescribed course of training and has passed the prescribed examination shall be entitled to be registered in that division of the register entitled "Infant Health Nurses," and every person who is registered in the General divi- sion of the register and being a trained and registered midwifery nurse, has completed the prescribed course of training and has passed the prescribed examination under this section shall be entitled to have her name entered in this division of the register ; and

(b) by renumbering subsection (4) as subsection (6).

Amendment

of s. 6 of 4. Section six of the principal Act is amended by

principal Act. striking out the words "subsection (3) " in line three of subsection (3) and substituting the words "subsections (3), (4), and (5)."

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5. A new section is added after section ten of the New section.

principal Act, as follows:—

10A.. (1) Every registered nurse shall during Annual registration.

the month of January in each year succeeding the year in which she was first registered apply in the prescribed manner for re-registration, and if any nurse fails to apply for re-registration in each of two consecutive years her name shall be erased from the register.

(2) A fee of one shilling shall be payable for

re-registration.

Notwithstanding that the name of any nurse has been erased from the register under this section, she shall be entitled to make a fresh application for registration on payment of the prescribed fee.

(3)

6. Section eleven of the principal Act is amended-- Amendment

of s. 11 of

(a) by inserting a paragraph after paragraph (a) , principal Act.

as follows :—

(b) being registered under one division falsely pretends that she is registered under another division of trained nurses; or

(b) by relettering paragraph (b) as paragraph (c).

7. A new section is added after section eleven of the New section.

principal Act as follows:

11A. (1) No person shall wear a nurse's cap	may wear
Certain nurses

unless such person is registered under this Act: nurse's cap.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Provided that

(a)	a certificated mental nurse or a registered midwifery nurse may wear a nurse's cap while in attendance on or nursing mental or midwifery patients respectively;
(b)	a member of a religious order may wear a habit to conform to the requirements or cus- tom of such order, and any person taking part in a religious rite may wear any raiment customary or necessary therefor.

(2) For the purpose of this section the term

"nurse's cap" means the cap commonly worn by

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trained nurses consisting of a piece of white material so folded that when worn portion thereof hangs to or below the shoulder.

Citation of

principal Act 8. The principal Act as amended by this Act and the

as amended.

Act No. 25 of 1922 may be cited as the Nurses Registra-

tion Act, 1921-1937.