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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

164   Reference to nurses and midwives in other enactments

    164 Reference to nurses and midwives in other enactments

  (1)  Every reference in any enactment to a nurse or registered nurse 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 Nursing Council
and who is practising nursing in accordance with his or her scope of
practice.

  (2)  However, a reference in an enactment of the kind described in subsection
(1) does not include a reference to a nurse whose scope of practice does not
permit him or her to perform a function to which the reference in that
enactment relates.

  (3)  Every reference in any enactment to a midwife or registered midwife
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 Midwifery
Council and who is practising midwifery in accordance with his or her scope of
practice.

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