Nurses and Midwives Amendment Act 1957
Nurses and Midwives Amendment Act 1957
Nurses and Midwives Amendment Act 1957
Public Act |
1957 No 15 |
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Date of assent |
4 October 1957 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Nurses and Midwives Act 1945
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Nurses and Midwives Amendment Act 1957, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Nurses and Midwives Act 1945 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Minimum age for registration
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section sixteen, and substituting the following section:
“16
“(1)
No woman who is under the age of twenty-two years shall be registered as a midwife.
“(2)
No person who is under the age of twenty-one years shall be registered as a psychiatric nurse.
“(3)
No person who is under the age of twenty years shall be registered as a nurse, or as a maternity nurse, or as a male nurse.
“(4)
No woman who is under the age of eighteen years shall be registered as a nursing aid.
“(5)
A person shall not be registered under this Act unless in the opinion of the Board that person is of good character and reputation.”
3 Inclusion of maternity training in nursing training
The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section twenty-five, the following section:
“25a
For the purposes of qualification for registration under this Act—
“(a)
As a nurse; or
“(b)
Both as a nurse and as a maternity nurse—
the prescribed course of training and instruction in nursing may include a course of training and instruction in maternity nursing; and references in this Act to the prescribed course of training and instruction shall be construed accordingly:
“Provided that in any such case the examinations in maternity nursing to be so prescribed shall be equivalent to those prescribed in any separate course of training and instruction in maternity nursing.”
4 Credit for previous training
Section twenty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:
“(6)
Without limiting the generality of the power to make regulations conferred by section forty-one of this Act, it is hereby declared that regulations made under that section prescribing courses of training and instruction for the purposes of qualification for registration in any capacity under this Act may prescribe a shorter period or course of training or instruction, or provide for the modification of any period or course, in respect of persons or classes of persons seeking registration in that capacity who are registered in any other capacity, or who have undergone the whole or any part of any period or course of training or instruction.”
5 Miscellaneous amendments to principal Act
(1)
Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection two, and substituting the following new paragraph:
“(b)
The Director of the Division of Mental Hygiene of the Department of Health:”.
(2)
Section six of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection five the words “or of the Mental Hospitals Department, as the case may be”
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