Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

190 Practitioners whose registration continued deemed to have authorised scope of practice



     Persons deemed registered under this Act deemed to have authorised scope
                                of practice

    190 Practitioners whose registration continued deemed to have authorised
scope of practice

  (1)  This section applies to a practitioner (the practitioner) who, because
of the person's former registration under a former
registration Act (the relevant former Act), is by this subpart
deemed to be registered with an authority.

  (2)  On the commencement of this section, the authority is deemed to have
authorised the practitioner's scope of practice, which is deemed to
consist of---

      (a)  health services of the kind that the practitioner was, immediately
before that commencement, permitted to perform by virtue of his or her
registration under the relevant former Act; and

      (b)  any conditions that, immediately before that commencement, were
imposed by or under that Act on the practitioner's registration or annual
practising certificate or annual licence.

  (3)  The authority may, in accordance with this Act, vary, or include
conditions in, a scope of practice that it is deemed to have been authorised
under subsection (2).

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