WESTERN SAMOA

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS AMENDMENT ACT 1980

Analysis

Title

1. Short title
2. Principal Act
3. Registers to be kept by Secretary
4. Certificate of practice
5. Council may endorse certificate
6. Regulations
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1980, No.9

AN ACT to amend the Medical Practitioners Act 1975
[5 September 1980]

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Western in Parliament assembled as follows:

1. Short title - This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1980.

2. Principal Act - The Medical Practitioners Act 1975* is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. * 1975, No. 15

3. Register to be kept by Secretary - Section 10 of the Principal Act is amendment by omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection (1) "are temporarily registered under section 16" and substituting "have been issued with a temporary certificate of permission to practise medicine or surgery or both, as the case may be, under section 16".

4. Certificate of practice - Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended by repealing sub-section (5) and substituting the following sub-section:

"(5) No person shall practise medicine or surgery in a private capacity in Western Samoa unless -

(a) he is registered as medical practitioner under this Act;

(b) he is the holder of a current practising certificate under this section;

(c) he has the necessary practical experience required by sub-section (4); and

(d) he has a current practising certificate endorsed by the Council under section 17A."

5. Council may endorse certificate - After section 17 of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted:

"17A. Council may endorse certificate

The Council may, where a person complies with paragraphs 17(5)(a), (b) and (c), endorse the current practising certificate indicating that the holder of a current practising certificate may practise medicine or surgery in a private capacity in Western Samoa subject to such to such terms and conditions as the Council may determine as endorsed on that certificate."

6. Regulations - Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by repealing paragraph (f) from sub-section (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

"(f) Prescribing the control of the professional conduct of registered medical practitioners and the practice of the profession; and

(g) Prescribing the imposition of fines not exceeding $50 for the breach of any regulation."

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