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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

7: Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments and repeals, and transitional provisions

159   Reference to medical practitioners in other enactments




    159 Reference to medical practitioners in other enactments
Every reference in any enactment to a medical practitioner or registered
medical practitioner or duly qualified medical practitioner must, unless a
different intention appears, be taken to be a reference to a person who is, or
is deemed to be, registered under this Act with the Medical Council of New
Zealand and who is practising medicine in accordance with his or her scope of
practice.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 139

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