Public Health (General) Amendment (Prescribed Electrophysical Treatment) Regulation 2002 (NSW)

2002 No 879

Public Health (General) Amendment New South Wales

(Prescribed Electrophysical Treatment)

Regulation 2002

under the

Public Health Act 1991

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Public Health Act 1991.

CRAIG KNOWLES, M.P.,

Minister for Health

Explanatory note

Section 10AD of the Public Health Act 1991 makes it an offence for a person to provide a prescribed electrophysical treatment unless the person is a registered chiropractor, medical practitioner, osteopath, physiotherapist or podiatrist. Prescribed electrophysical treatment is defined in section 10AD as an electrophysical treatment prescribed by the regulations.

The object of this Regulation is to prescribed certain electrophysical treatments for regulation-making power).
the purposes of section 10AD.

This Regulation is made under the Public Health Act 1991 (as amended by the

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Clause 1	Public Health (General) Amendment (Prescribed Electrophysical Treatment) Regulation 2002

Public Health (General) Amendment (Prescribed
Electrophysical Treatment) Regulation 2002

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Health (General) Amendment

(Prescribed Electrophysical Treatment) Regulation 2002.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 December 2002.

3 Amendment of Public Health (General) Regulation 2002

The Public Health (General) Regulation 2002 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 3)

Clause 20A

Insert after clause 20:

20A Prescribed electrophysical treatment

For the purposes of section 10AD of the Act, the following electrophysical treatments are prescribed:

(a)	shortwave and microwave diathermy,
(b)	electrical stimulation by interferential current.

BY AUTHORITY

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