Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1964
Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1964
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Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1964
Public Act |
1964 No 30 |
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Date of assent |
3 November 1964 |
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Contents
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
This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1964, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Medical Practitioners Act 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Qualifications for conditional registration
(1)
Section 9 of the principal Act, as amended by subsection (1) of section 59 of the Universities Act 1961, is hereby further amended by repealing subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of the proviso to paragraph (c), and substituting the following subparagraphs:
“(ii)
The Council may, if it thinks fit, require that any holder of such a degree, diploma, or other qualification, before being conditionally registered, shall do all or any of the following things, namely, satisfy the Council that he has a reasonable command of the English language, and attend a course in medicine and surgery, and pass examinations therein:
“(iii)
If it does not appear to the Council that the graduates in medicine and surgery of any University in New Zealand are, by virtue of their graduation and without further training, experience, or examination, entitled to be registered as medical practitioners and to practise medicine and surgery in the country in which is situated the University or Institution by which the degree, diploma, or other qualification has been granted, the Council may refuse to approve that degree, diploma, or other qualification or may require every person relying thereon, before being conditionally registered, to comply with any conditions which appear to the Council to be substantially equivalent to the conditions attached to the recognition in that country of qualifications obtained in New Zealand, notwithstanding that the Council would have approved the degree, diploma, or other qualification unconditionally if the law of that country had provided otherwise.”
(2)
Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding, as subsection (2), the following subsection:
“(2)
Any course or examination which the Council, pursuant to subparagraph (ii) or subparagraph (iii) of the proviso to paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section, requires any person to attend or pass, shall be such course or examination as is approved for the purpose by the Council either generally or in relation to any particular case or class of cases.”
(3)
The Universities Act 1961 is hereby amended by repealing so much of the First Schedule as relates to subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of section 9 of the Medical Practitioners Act 1950.
3 Qualifications for registration as medical practitioners
Section 12 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding, as subsection (2), the following subsection:
“(2)
In determining whether for the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this section a person is eligible to be conditionally registered, the Council shall take into account all the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 9 of this Act to the extent, if any, that those provisions would have been applicable if the Council were considering the conditional registration of that person.”
4 Restoration to register
Section 21 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from subsection (4) the words “removed by mistake the Secretary shall, if so directed by the Council”
, and substituting the words “so removed it shall direct the Secretary to”
:
(b)
By omitting from the proviso to subsection (4) the words “the refusal of the Council to restore”
, and substituting the words “any decision of the Council under this subsection which affects the restoration of”
.
5 Amendment of register on change of name, and removal of name on request
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 24, the following section:
“24a
“(1)
When it appears to the satisfaction of the Council that a person who has been registered as a medical practitioner or conditionally registered has changed his name, or that the name of any such person is incorrectly stated in the register, the Secretary shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, correct the entry in the register relating to that person accordingly:
“Provided that no fee shall be payable where the correction of the register is rendered necessary by reason of a mistake made by the Council or the Secretary or any of his subordinates.
“(2)
The Council may at any time, if it thinks fit, on the application of any person who has been registered as a medical practitioner or conditionally registered, cause the name of that person to be removed from the register.
“(3)
Subsection (4) of section 21 of this Act shall apply in the case of any person whose name has been removed from the register under this section.”
6 Provisional certificates
Section 25 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:
“(6)
Any direction given by the Chairman of the Council under this section may be expressed to apply generally or in relation to any particular case or class of cases, but the Secretary shall not issue any such certificate to any person who does not appear to him to be entitled to be registered in the manner specified in the application unless he is specially directed by the Chairman of the Council so to do.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Health.
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