Temporary registration of practitioners visiting New Zealand for post-graduate teaching or experience.

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Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1954

Public Act		1954 No 10
Date of assent		9 September 1954

	Title
1	Short Title. 1950, No. 50
2	Temporary registration of practitioners visiting New Zealand for post-graduate teaching or experience.

An Act to amend the Medical Practitioners Act 1950.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title. 1950, No. 50

This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1954, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Medical Practitioners Act 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Temporary registration of practitioners visiting New Zealand for post-graduate teaching or experience.

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section twenty-five, the following section:

“25a

“(1)

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, if the Council is satisfied that any person is or will be visiting New Zealand for the purpose of giving postgraduate instruction in medicine or surgery, and—

“(a)

That he is qualified for registration as a medical practitioner under this Act; or

“(b)

That he is the holder of a degree, diploma, or other qualification granted by any University or Institution outside New Zealand and recognized by the Council for the purposes of this section as evidence that the holder has sufficient knowledge and experience for the efficient practice of medicine and surgery,—

the Council may, if it thinks fit, issue to him a certificate of temporary registration entitling him to practise as a medical practitioner for such period as may be determined by the Council and specified in the certificate.

“(2)

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, if the Council is satisfied that any person is or will be visiting New Zealand for the purpose of obtaining post-graduate experience as a practitioner of medicine or surgery in any hospital or other institution approved by the Council for the purposes of this section, and—

“(a)

That he is qualified for registration as a medical practitioner under this Act; or

“(b)

the Council may, if it thinks fit, issue to him a certificate of temporary registration entitling him to practise as a medical practitioner, for such period as may be determined by the Council and specified in the certificate, in such hospital or institution as may be specified in the certificate.

“(3)

The provisions of sections thirteen to sixteen and section eighteen of this Act shall apply to every application for temporary registration under this section.

“(4)

No fee shall be payable in respect of any application for temporary registration under this section or in respect of the issue of any certificate thereunder.

“(5)

The Council may from time to time, in its discretion, extend the period specified in any certificate under this section if it is satisfied that the circumstances in which it was issued still exist. Any such extension shall be endorsed on the certificate, which for that purpose shall be surrendered by the holder to the Secretary to the Council.

“(6)

During the period specified in any such certificate, or any such extension thereof, the holder of the certificate shall, unless it has been cancelled under this section, be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be registered as a medical practitioner.

“(7)

The Secretary to the Council may cancel any such certificate at any time on the direction of the Council.

“(8)

Every person commits an offence and is liable on Summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds who, being the holder of a certificate of temporary registration issued under subsection two of this section, practices medicine or surgery otherwise than in the hospital or institution specified in the certificate.”

(2)

Section fifty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to subsection five the following paragraph:

“(d)

Any person holding a certificate of temporary registration for the time being in force under section twenty-five a of this Act.”

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