Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

214 Applications pending at commencement of this section to be dealt with under former registration Act



Pending applications for registration

    214 Applications pending at commencement of this section to be dealt with
under former registration Act

  (1)  Every application for, or concerning, registration under a former
registration Act that is, immediately before the commencement of this
section, pending before a continuing authority or before the Pharmaceutical
Council or before the old Dental Council or the Dental Technicians Board must
be considered and determined as if this Act had not been enacted.

  (2)  After determining an application of the kind referred to in subsection
(1), the Pharmaceutical Council must promptly advise the Pharmacy Council of
the determination.

  (3)  After determining an application of the kind referred to in subsection
(1), the old Dental Council must promptly advise the new Dental Council of the
determination.

  (4)  After determining an application of the kind referred to in subsection
(1), the Dental Technicians Board must promptly advise the new Dental Council
of the determination.

  (5)  After determining an application of the kind referred to in subsection
(1), being an application relating to registration as a midwife, the Nursing
Council must promptly advise the Midwifery Council of the determination.

  (6)  When a determination of an application of the kind referred to in
subsection (1) results in the registration, or in a change in the registration,
of a person, that registration or change is deemed to have taken effect
immediately before the commencement of this section.

  (7)  The Pharmaceutical Council, the old Dental Council, and the Dental
Technicians Board each---

      (a)  continues in existence for the purpose of giving effect to this
section; and

      (b)  has all the powers necessary for that purpose.

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