Health Professionals (Special Events Exemption) Act 2000 (WA)

Western Australia Health Professionals (Special Events Exemption) Act 2000 Western Australia Health Professionals (Special Events Exemption) Act 2000 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 3. Terms used 2 4. Term used: visitor 3 5. Term used: visiting health professional 3 Part 2 — Special events exemptions 6. Special events 5 7. Provision of health care services by visiting health professionals authorised 5 8. Conditions on practice by visiting health professionals 6 9. Supply of medicines 7 10. Request for use of irradiating apparatus etc. authorised 7 11. Exemptions 8 12. Operation of authorisations 9 Part 3 — Miscellaneous 13. Complaints about visiting health professionals 11 14. Application of Act to particular persons 11 15. Act does not limit the practice of registered health professionals 11 16. Regulations 11 17. Review of Act 12 Notes Compilation table 13 Defined terms Western Australia Health Professionals (Special Events Exemption) Act 2000 An Act to allow visiting health professionals to provide health care services to visitors to the State in connection with special events, and for related purposes.

Part 1 — Preliminary

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Health Professionals (Special Events Exemption) Act 2000 1.

2. Commencement This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent 1.

3. Terms used (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — exemption period, in relation to a special event, means the period or periods specified in an order under section 6 that applies to the event; health care services means — (a) services ordinarily provided by chiropractors, dental hygienists, dental therapists, dental prosthetists, dentists, medical practitioners, nurses, occupational therapists, optometrists, osteopaths, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists and psychologists; and (b) any other prescribed health care service; Health Registration Act means the National Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia); medicine has the meaning given in the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 section 3; prepare includes train, practise, rehearse and acclimatize; registered means registered, licensed or enrolled under a Health Registration Act, or deemed to be so registered, licensed or enrolled; special event means an event, or class of event, that is declared to be a special event by order under section 6; visiting health professional has the meaning given by section 5; visitor has the meaning given by section 4. (2) An order made under this Act is subsidiary legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1984. [Section 3 amended: No. 28 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 5; No. 29 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 3; No. 30 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 3; No. 31 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 3; No. 32 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 3; No. 33 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 3; No. 42 of 2005 Sch. 3 cl. 4; No. 11 of 2006 s. 4; No. 21 of 2006 Sch. 3 cl. 3; No. 50 of 2006 Sch. 3 cl. 10; No. 22 of 2008 Sch. 3 cl. 25; No. 19 of 2010 s. 51; No. 35 of 2010 s. 78; No. 13 of 2014 s. 161.]