Australian Capital Territory

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AMENDMENT REGULATION 2006 (No 2)

Explanatory Statement

Circulated with the authority of
John Hargreaves MLA
Acting Minister for Health

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Authority

This Regulation is authorised by section 134 of the Health Professionals Act 2004.

Outline

The amendments proposed in this Regulation are to provide a modification to the Health Professionals Act 2004, which provides authority to the parliamentary counsel to remove four notifiable instruments from the legislation register.  The instruments relate to decisions and findings of fact in regards to disciplinary proceedings brought against nurses, which were placed on the legislation register in accordance with section 82 of the Nurses Act 1988.

Revenue/Cost Implications

There is no additional cost involved in this Regulation.

Formal Clauses

Clause 1 – Name of Regulation – states the title of the Regulation, which is the Health Professionals Amendment Regulation 2006 (No 2).

Clause 2 – Commencement – states when the Regulation commences.  The Regulation commences on 17 January 2005.  

Clause 3 –Legislation amended – provides that this Regulation amends the Health Professionals Regulation 2004.

Clause 4 – New section 159 – inserts a new section into the Health Professionals Act 2004 to provides for the modification made in Schedule 16 the new section also provides that the modification will expire on 9 July 2006.

Clause 5 – New Schedule 16 – inserts a new Schedule 16.  Schedule 16 inserts a new section 150L, which provides that the Legislation Act 2001, section 19 does not apply to the notifiable instruments listed.  Subsection (2) of the new section provides authority to the parliamentary counsel to remove each of the instruments listed and subsection (3) provides that the modification expires on 9 July 2006.