Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act 1946 (WA)

1946.] Nurses Registration. [No. 14.

NURSES REGISTRATION.

10 = GEO. VI., No. XIV.

No. 14 of 1946.

AN ACT to amend the Nurses Registration Act, 1921- 1944, by making provision for the registration of tuberculosis nurses under that Act: and for other incidental purposes.

[Assented to 13th November, 1946.]

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:—

cf. No. 14 01

1.

This Act may be cited as the Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act, 1946, and shall be read as one with the Nurses Registration Act, 1921-1944 (No. 7 of 1922 as reprinted with amendments up to and including Act No. 32 of 1939, pursuant to the Amendments Incorpora- tion Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia, and as amended by Act No. 14 of 1944), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. 1944, s. 13.

Section one B of the principal Act is amended by adding thereto a new definition as follows:	fLmendown I of
s. 15. of.
ibid. s. 2.

2.

"Tuberculosis nurse" means a nurse qualified as prescribed to engage in nursing persons who are in need of treatment for tuberculosis.

3.	Section three of the principal Act is amended as	amendment of
s. 3. cf.

follows ibid. s. 4.

(a) by deleting from subsection (1) the word "five" in line six of the subsection, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "six"; and

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(b) by adding to subsection (1) a further paragraph

as follows :—

(f ) the names of those nurses who are qualified under the provisions of this Act as tuberculosis nurses.

Amendment of 4. Section five of the principal Act is amended by

s.5. cf.	inserting therein after subsection (5b) a new subsection
ibi. a. 6.
as follows :—

(5c) Every person who has attained the age of twenty-one years, has completed the prescribed course of training (which shall extend over a period of at least two years) and has passed the prescribed examination shall be entitled to be registered as a tuberculosis nurse in that division of the register which relates to tuberculosis nurses, on payment of the prescribed fee.

Provided that no trainee shall be accepted for training in a hospital specialising in tuberculosis until such trainee shall have attained the age of twenty-one years.

The foregoing proviso regarding age limit shall not apply to any person already serving at Wooroloo Sanatorium as an assistant tuberculosis nurse or trainee nurse.

Amendment of	5. Section six of the principal Act is amended by deleting from subsection (3) thereof the word and figure "and (5b) " in line three of the said subsection, and insert- ing in lieu thereof the word and figures "(5b) and (5c)."
s. 6. cf.
ibid. a. 7.
Amendment of	6. Section thirteen of the principal Act is amended by deleting from proviso (a) of subsection (1) the word "or" in the first line and where it secondly appears in the third line, and by inserting after the word "nurse" in the second line of such proviso the words "or a regis- tered tuberculosis nurse," and by inserting after the word "midwifery" in the said third line the words "or tuberculosis."
a. 13.
Citation of

principal Act 7. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

as amended. cited as the Nurses Registration Act, 1921-1946.