Medical Practitioners Registration Act 1983 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

Health Practitioners Act 1983

No. 1, 1985

Compilation No. 1

Compilation date: 1 July 2016

Includes amendments up to: Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015 (No. 2, 2015)

NORFOLK ISLAND

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ACT 1983

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Commencement 3. Definitions 4. Title and practice protections 13. Medical appointments not to be held by unregistered persons 14. Signing of death certificates

NORFOLK ISLAND

Health Practitioners Act 1983

An Act to provide for requirements relating to health practitioners

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Health Practitioners Act 1983.

Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date fixed by the Administrator by notice published in the Gazette.

Definitions 3. In this Act: health profession means the following professions, and includes a recognised specialty in any of the following professions: (a) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practice; (b) Chinese medicine; (c) chiropractic; (d) dental (including the profession of a dentist, dental therapist, dental hygienist, dental prosthetist and oral health therapist); (e) medical; (f) medical radiation practice; (g) nursing and midwifery; (h) occupational therapy; (i) optometry; (j) osteopathy; (k) pharmacy; (l) physiotherapy; (m) podiatry; (n) psychology. National Law has the same meaning as in the My Health Records Act 2012 of the Commonwealth. Note: National Law is defined in section 5 of that Act to mean: (a) for a State or Territory other than Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 of Queensland, as it applies (with or without modification) as a law of the State or Territory; or (b) for Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010 of Western Australia, so far as that Act corresponds to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 of Queensland. registered health practitioner means a person registered under a National Law to practise a health profession (other than as a student). registered medical practitioner means a medical practitioner within the meaning of a National Law.