Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

184 Persons registered under Nurses Act 1977 deemed to be registered under this Act




    184 Persons registered under Nurses Act 1977 deemed to be registered under
this Act

  (1)  Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section,
was registered or enrolled as a nurse under the Nurses Act 1977 (including a
person
who, immediately before that commencement, was so registered or enrolled by
virtue of a provisional certificate of registration or enrolment or a
certificate of temporary registration or enrolment under that Act) is, on the
commencement of this
section, deemed to be registered, under this Act, with the Nursing Council as a
practitioner of the profession of nursing.

  (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to a person so far as the person was,
immediately before the commencement of this
section, registered under the Nurses Act 1977 in his or her capacity as a
midwife.

  (3)  Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section,
was registered under the Nurses Act 1977 in his or her capacity as a midwife
(including a person who, immediately before that commencement, was so
registered by virtue of a provisional certificate of registration or a
certificate of temporary registration under that Act) is, on the commencement
of this
section, deemed to be registered, under this Act, with the Midwifery Council
established by section 114(3) as a practitioner of the profession of
midwifery.

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