Medical Practitioners Act 1995

   3. Principal purpose--- (1) The principal purpose of this Act is to
 protect the health and safety of members of the public by prescribing or
 providing for mechanisms to ensure that medical practitioners are
 competent to practise medicine.

   (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) of this section,
 this Act seeks to attain its principal purpose by, among other
 things,---
   (a) Imposing various restrictions on the practice of medicine:
   (b) Providing for the registration of medical practitioners, and the
         issue of annual practising certificates:
   (c) Providing for the review of the competence of medical
         practitioners to practise medicine:
   (d) Providing for the notification of any mental or physical condition
         affecting the fitness of a medical practitioner to practise
         medicine:
   (e) Providing for the disciplining of medical practitioners:
   (f) Providing certain protections for medical practitioners who take
         part in approved quality assurance activities.