AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE 1956

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 5 of 1956

	The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that medical practitioners who are employed as residents at the Canberra Community Hospital are subject to the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of the Australian Capital Territory in the following respects:-
(1)	Doctors who have not had the requisite training or experience to entitle them to registration as medical practitioners will be required to obtain the approval of the Medical Board before they are entitled to perform the functions and duties of a physician surgeon or other medical officer at the Canberra Community Hospital.
(2)	Doctors who have had the requisite training or experience will be required to effect registration and to pay the prescribed registration fee even though they do not wish to practise medicine other than in the capacity of a resident doctor at the hospital.