Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act 1957 (WA)

1957.] Nurses Registration. [No. 19.

NURSES REGISTRATION.

6° Elizabeth II., No. XIX.

No. 19 of 1957.

AN ACT to amend the Nurses Registration

Act, 1921-1956.

[Assented to 30th September, 1957.]

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:—

Short title

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

Registration Act Amendment Act, 1957.

Reprinted in

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

Vol. 6 of The

Reprinted

1956,	Acts as
approved for

Act No. 7 of 1922 as reprinted pursuant to the	reprint 19th
June, 1953.
Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938 with amendments to and including Act No. 41 of 1952 and as further amended by Acts Nos. 61 of 1953 and 33 of 1956,

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- 1957.

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amended. 2. Section five of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by adding after the subsection designation, "(5b)", the paragraph designation, "(a)";
(b)	by substituting for the passage, "Subject as hereinafter provided," in line one of sub- section (5b), the passage, "Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this sub- section,"; and
(c)	by substituting for the proviso to subsection (5b) the following paragraph:

(b) Where an applicant for registration

as a midwifery nurse satisfies the Board

(i)    that she has had three years' general training as a nurse in a prescribed institution and holds a certificate based on that train- ing, and that she has in addition completed twelve months of training in midwifery nursing in a prescribed institution; or

(ii)    that she is registered or is entitled to be registered in that division of the register referred to in sub- section (4) of this section as the division entitled "Children's Nurses", and that she has in addition completed twelve months of training in midwifery nursing in a prescribed institu- tion; or

(iii)    that she is registered or is entitled to be registered in that division of the register referred to in sub- section (5a) of this section as the division which relates to mental

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nurses, and that she has passed the first year's examination to- wards qualification for registra- tion under subsection (3) of this section, and that she has in addition completed eighteen months of training in midwifery nursing in a prescribed institu- tion;

the Board may, subject to the regulations, register the applicant in that division of the register which relates to midwifery nurses, notwithstanding that the appli- cant has not complied in all respects with the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subsection.

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3. Section sixteen of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding after the word, "Act" being the last word in subparagraph (v) of paragraph (b) the following passage-

; and

(vi) prescribing the qualifications to be held by persons desiring to be accepted as students and regulating the training of students and prescribing the classes to be attended and the examinations to be passed and the minimum age at which training may be commenced.