AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

NURSING REGULATIONS (REPEAL)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 21 of 1988

The repeal of the Nursing Regulations is required as a result of the repeal of the Nurses Registration Ordinance 1933 and making of the Nurses Ordinance 1988.  The Nursing Regulations deal with the form of applications for registration and certificates of registration, details of training for nurses, the prescription of educational qualifications for nurses, the conduct of examinations for nurses, the prescription of certain rules relating to the conduct and practice of nursing and the payment of fees for matters under the Nurses Registration Ordinance 1933.

The substance of the regulations relating to the payment of fees is to be carried out by the proposed Nurses Ordinance 1987.  New section 60 of that Ordinance will provide that fees are to be determined by the Minister by written notice in the Gazette.  The other matters dealt with by the regulations are in most cases outdated and no longer apply to the conduct and training of the nursing profession, while some are to be dealt with in the Nurses Ordinance 1988 and by administrative means.