Physiotherapists Registration (Amendment) Act 1984 (NSW)

PHYSIOTHERAPISTS REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT,

1984, No. 44

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ANNO TRICESIMO TERTIO

ELIZABETH^E H REGINA

Act No. 44, 1984,

An Act to amend section 21 of the Physiotherapists Registration Act, 1945, with respect to the registration of certain persons as physiotherapists; and for other purposes. [Assented to, 13th June, 1984.]

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Physiotherapists Registration (Amendment).

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; —

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Physiotherapists Registration

(Amendment) Act, 1984’’.

Commencemeot.

2 , (1) Except as provided by subsection (2), this Act shall commence

on the date of assent to this Act.

(2) Section 4 shall, if the date of assent to this Act occurs after 22nd

June, 1984, be deemed to have commenced on that day.

Principal Act.

3- The Physiotherapists Registration Act, 1945, is referred to in this Act

as the Principal Act.

Amendment of Act No. 9, 1945.

4 .           The Principal Act is amended by omitting section 21 (1b ) and by

inserting instead the following subsection: —

(1b ) Where a person would, but for subsection (1a ), be entitled to

be registered as a physiotherapist by reason of the operation of section

21 ( I ) (a), (d) or (e), the Board may—

(a)	exempt the person or persons of the class to which the person belongs from the operation of subsection (1a ); or
(b)	determine that the period or aggregate of periods referred to in subsection (1a ) (a) or (b) shall be reduced, in respect of the person or persons of the class to which the person belongs, by such period as the Board thinks fit.

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Physiotherapists Registration {Amendment).

V alidation.

5.          If the date of assent to this Act occurs after 22nd June, 1984, any

exemption or determ ination-

fa) which purports to have been granted or made, as the case may be, under section 21 f i e ) of the Principal Act at any time occurring on or after that day but before that date of assent; and

(b) which could have been lawfully granted or made only if the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, had been in force at that time,

is hereby validated.

Saving.

6.          Any exemption granted or determination made under section 21 (1b)

of the Principal Act before the date of assent to this Act shall be deemed to have been granted or made, as the case may be, under section 21 ( 1 b) of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act.