Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Regulation 2016 (2016-543) (NSW)

Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Regulation 2016

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Regulation This Regulation is the Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Regulation 2016.

2 Commencement This Regulation commences on 1 September 2016 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

Note— This Regulation replaces the Health Practitioner Regulation (New South Wales) Regulation 2010, which is repealed on 1 September 2016 by section 10(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

3 Definitions (1) In this Regulation— medical corporation means a corporation engaged in the provision of medical services by medical practitioners. medical treatment or other medical service includes any medical or surgical treatment, service or procedure, including for diagnostic purposes. patient means a person to whom health care treatment or other health services are provided. professional services room has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 5F to the Law. the Law means the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW).

Note— The Law and the Interpretation Act 1987 contain definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Regulation. (2) Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.

Part 2 Infection control standards

4 Definition In this Part and in Schedule 3— relevant health practitioner means— (a) an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner, and (b) a Chinese medicine practitioner, and (c) a chiropractor, and (d) a medical practitioner, and (e) a medical radiation practitioner, and (f) a nurse or midwife, and (g) an occupational therapist, and (h) an optometrist, and (i) a pharmacist, and (j) a physiotherapist.