Nurses Registration (Amendment) Act 1973 (NSW)

NURSES REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT)

ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO SECUNDO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 30, 1973.

An Act to enable annual practising fees to be made payable by different registered nurses and enrolled nursing aides at different times; for this purpose to amend the Nurses Registration Act, 1953; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 2nd May, 1973.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative	Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —
(Amendment) Act, 1973".

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

2. This Act shall commence upon such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

3. The Nurses Registration Act, 1953, is amended—

(a) by inserting in section fourteen after paragraph (e) the following new paragraph :—

(el) to issue authorities to practise as a nurse

referred to in section 17;

(b) by omitting section 17 (1) and by inserting instead the following subsections :—

(1) A reference in this section to a prescribed period applicable to a registered nurse is—

(a) in relation to a registered nurse who was a registered nurse at the commencement of the Nurses Registration (Amendment) Act, 1973 (not being a registered nurse referred to in paragraph (b ) ) , a reference to—

(i)   such period (being not less than six months nor more than eighteen months and being a period com­ mencing on the first day of January in the year next following the year in

which the Nurses Registration

(Amendment) Act, 1973, com­ mences) as may be fixed by the Board in respect of her or in respect of any class, group or description of registered nurses to which she belongs; and

(ii)   each subsequent period of twelve months; and

(b)

(b) in relation to a registered nurse whose name is entered, or is again entered, in the Register after the commencement of the Nurses Registration (Amendment) Act, 1973, a reference to—

(i)   the period of twelve months com­ mencing on the first day of the month next following the first anni­ versary of the day of her registration or re-registration; and

(ii)  each subsequent period of twelve months.

(1A) A registered nurse shall on or before the commencement of any prescribed period applicable to her pay to the Registrar the prescribed practising fee for an authority to practise as a nurse during that prescribed period.

(1B) Where—

(a)	the Board has, not earlier than two months before the commencement of a prescribed period applicable to a registered nurse, for­ warded to that registered nurse by post addressed to her at her address appearing on the Register a notice informing her that, if the prescribed practising fee for an authority to practise as a nurse during that prescribed period is not paid before the
her name may be removed from the commencement of that prescribed period,

Register; and

(b) that registered nurse has not paid that fee to the Board before that commencement,

the Board may remove the name of that registered

nurse from the Register.

( l c )

( l c ) The regulations prescribing the prescribed

practising fee for authorities to practise as a nurse during any prescribed periods applicable to regis­ tered nurses may prescribe fees differing according to the duration of those periods.

(c)

by inserting in section 20 after the word "registra­ tion" the words ", authority to practise referred to in section 17";

(d)

by omitting from section 32 (2) the words "reten­ tion fee" and by inserting instead the words "practising fee";

(e)

(i)	by omitting from section 35 (1) (b) the words "badges and o f and by inserting instead the words "badges, authorities to practise referred to in section 17 and";
(ii)	by omitting from section 35 (1) (h) the words "retention fees" and by inserting instead the words "practising fees";
(iii)	by omitting section 35 (2) and (3) and by inserting instead the following subsection :—

(2) Section 41 of the Interpretation Act, 1897, applies in respect of a regulation as if this Act had been passed after the commence­ ment of the Interpretation (Amendment) Act,

1969.

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