Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CHIROPRACTORS AND OSTEOPATHS (NO 86 OF 1993)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Chiropractors and Osteopaths (Amendment) Act 1993.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Chiropractors Registration Act 1983.1  

   PART II--AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ACT LONG TITLE

   4.      The long title of the Principal Act is omitted and the following long title substituted:  
   5.      Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Registration” and substituting “and Osteopaths”.  
   6.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   7.      After section 3 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted in Part I:  
   8.      The heading to Part II of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “CHIROPRACTIC” and substituting “CHIROPRACTORS AND OSTEOPATHS”.  
   9.      Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “Chiropractic” and substituting “Chiropractors and Osteopaths”.  
   10.     The heading to Part III of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “AND QUALIFICATIONS”.  
   11.     Sections 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following Divisions and heading substituted:  
   12.     Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   13.     Section 16 of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   14.     Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   15.     Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) all the words after “name” and substituting the following:  
   16.     Sections 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 of the Principal Act are repealed.  
   17.     Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   18.     Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “section 22, subsection 23 (1) or subsection 24 (2)” and substituting “subsection 24 (2), section 26 or subsection 26A (1)”.  
   19.     Section 26 of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   20.     The heading to Part IV of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “OR OSTEOPATHY” after “CHIROPRACTIC”.  
   21.     Before section 27 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted in Part IV:  
   22.     Sections 56 and 57 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following Division and heading substituted:  
   24.     Sections 70, 71 and 72 of the Principal Act are repealed.  
   25.     The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.  

   PART III--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   26.     The Register to be kept under section 14E of the Principal Act as amended by this Act is a continuation of the Register kept under section 11 of the Principal Act before the commencement of this Act.  
   27.     A person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was registered as a chiropractor under the Principal Act continues to be registered under the Principal Act as amended by this Act on the same terms and subject to the same conditions as applied to his or her registration immediately before the commencement of this Act.  
   28.     A person who, immediately before the repeal of section 19 of the Principal Act by this Act, held provisional registration under that section shall, on the commencement of this Act, be taken to be a person who has been granted interim registration in accordance with section 8 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.  
   30.     An application for registration under the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act that had not been determined before the commencement of this Act shall be taken to be an application for registration under the Principal Act as amended by this Act and any inquiry or investigation for the purposes of the application may be continued or completed.  
   33.     An order having effect under a provision of the Principal Act repealed by this Act is, by this section, converted to an equivalent order under the Principal Act as amended by this Act.  

   PART IV--MISCELLANEOUS RENUMBERING OF PROVISIONS
           SCHEDULE