Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act 1953 (WA)

NURSES REGISTRATION.

2° Elizabeth II., No. LXI.

No. 61 of 1953.

AN ACT to amend the Nurses Registration Act,

1921-1952.

[Assented to 9th January, 1954.]

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

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Nurses Short title and citation.

Registration Act Amendment Act, 1953.

(2) In this Act the Nurses Registration Act, 1921-

1952,

Act No. 7 of 1922 as reprinted pursuant to the rAepporr izeld9gr

Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, with

Time, 1953.

amendments to and including Act No. 41 of

1952 incorporated,

is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Nurses Registration Act, 1921- 1953.

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amended. 2. Section one B of the principal Act is amended

by adding before the interpretation "Mental Nurse"

the following interpretation:

"Dental Nurse" means a nurse qualified as

prescribed to engage in dental nursing.

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amended. 3. Subsection (1) of section three of the principal

Act is amended by

(a)	substituting for the word "eight" in line eleven the word "nine";
(b)	adding after paragraph (h) a paragraph as follows:—

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

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amended. 4. Section five of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (5e) the following sub- section:—

(5f ) A person, who has-

(i)    attained the age of nineteen years;

(ii)   completed the prescribed course of training of not less than three years in dental nursing at the Perth Dental Hospital or other prescribed institution; and

(iii) passed the prescribed examination;

or a person, who

(iv)    is entitled to be registered in any division of the register of duly qualified nurses referred to in section three of this Act;

(v)    has completed the prescribed course of training in dental nursing for the period prescribed for nurses registered in that division of the Register in which the person is entitled to be registered, at a prescribed institution; and

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(vi)    has passed the prescribed examination;

or a person, who has

(vii) at the date of coming into operation of the Nurses Registration Act Amend- ment Act, 1953, completed at the Perth Dental Hospital a course of training in dental nursing of not less than three years; and

(viii)    been granted a diploma of dental nurs- ing by the Board of that hospital;

or a person, who

(ix) on the coming into operation of the Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act, 1953, is entitled to be registered in that division of the register referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section three of this Act; and

(x)    was employed in a full time capacity for a period of not less than one year at the Perth Dental Hospital as an instructress in the school of dental nursing;

is on payment of the prescribed fee, entitled to registration as a dental nurse in that division of the register which relates to dental nurses.