Nurses Registration Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

No. 26.] Nurses Registration. [1959.

NURSES REGISTRATION.

8° Elizabeth II., No. XXVI.

No. 26 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Nurses Registration Act,

1921-1957.

[Assented to 15th October, 1959.]

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

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

Registration Act Amendment Act, 1959.

Vol. 6 of the	(2)	In this Act the Nurses Registration Act, 1921-
Reprinted
Acts.

Approved	1957 is referred to as the principal Act.
for reprint 19th Tune,
1953.	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Nurses Registration Act, 1921-1959.

1959.] Nurses Registration. [No. 26.

2. Section three of the principal Act is amended	8.3
amended.

by repealing paragraph (a) of subsection (la) and

re-enacting the paragraph as follows

(a) Every mental nurse, who holds a certificate for mental nursing issued to him under the regulations made under the Lunacy Act, 1903-1954, shall be deemed to be qualified under this Act as a mental nurse, and upon application shall be registered as such under the provisions of this section; .