AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF NURSING REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 11 of 1968

	The amendments are designed to remove redundant provisions relating to the training of general and midwifery nurses, to lower from eighteen to seventeen years the minimum age at which a pupil general, mental or infants’ nurse may commence training and to give the Nurses Registration Board more flexibility in conducting its examinations for registration.