Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

202 Medical practitioners holding probationary registration




    202 Medical practitioners holding probationary registration

  (1)  In this section, probationer means a person who, immediately before the
commencement of this
section, held probationary registration under the Medical Practitioners Act
1995.

  (2)  On the commencement of this section, the scope of practice of the
probationer is deemed to be subject to conditions of the kind stated in
sections 22(3)(a) and 23 of this Act, and continues to be subject to those
conditions until they are cancelled by the Medical Council.

  (3)  Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section,
is, in relation to the probationer, an approved person for the
purposes of section 15 of the Medical Practitioners Act 1995 is deemed to be a
person nominated by the Medical Council for the purposes of section 22(3)(d)
or, as the case requires, section 22(3)(e) of this Act.

  (4)  Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section,
is, in relation to the probationer, an approved person, or a person of
a kind approved, for the purposes of section 16 of the Medical Practitioners
Act 1995 is deemed to be a health practitioner nominated by the Medical Council
for the purposes of section 22(3)(a) of this Act.

  (5)  Section 16 of the Medical Practitioners Act 1995 continues, so far as
applicable, to apply with all necessary modifications to every person appointed
under that section as a supervisor of the probationer as if for the words in
subsection (4)(b) "the probationer should be granted general
registration" there were substituted the words "the condition
requiring the practitioner to practise subject to supervision should continue
to apply".

  (6)  The provisions of section 18(1) and (3) of the Medical Practitioners Act
1995 continue to apply with all necessary modifications to the registration of
the probationer so long as the conditions referred to in subsection (2)
continue to apply to the probationer, and the Medical Council may, in
accordance with those provisions as so modified, cancel the registration of the
probationer.
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