Western Australian Numbered Acts

CHIROPRACTORS ACT 2005 (NO. 31 OF 2005) - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used in this Act

                In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        “application” means an application for registration;

        “approved” means approved by the Board in writing;

        “Board” means the Chiropractors Registration Board of Western Australia established by section 5;

        “certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration issued under section 39;

        “chiropractic” means a system of examining and adjusting the human spinal column and associated structures, for the purpose of diagnosing and correcting, without the use of drugs or operative surgery, interference to nerve transmission and normal joint function or any other similar system prescribed by the rules;

        “chiropractor” means a person who is registered;

        “committee” means a committee established by the Board under this Act;

        “complainant” means a person who lodges a complaint under section 52(1) or (2);

        “complaint” means —

            (a)         a complaint lodged under section 52(1) or (2);

            (b)         a complaint referred under section 52(3);

            (c)         a matter the complaints assessment committee has determined under section 52(4) to deal with as if it were a complaint; and

            (d)         a matter the Board has referred to the impairment review committee under section 61(3);

        “complaints assessment committee” means the committee established under section 50;

        “condition” includes restriction;

        "Corporations Act" means the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;

        “Director” means the Director of the Office of Health Review under the Health Services (Conciliation and Review) Act 1995 ;

        “disciplinary matter” means a matter referred to in section 48;

        “document” includes any tape, disc or other device or medium on which information is recorded or stored;

        “impairment” means —

            (a)         mental disability;

            (b)         injury;

            (c)         physical illness;

        “impairment matter” means a matter referred to in section 49;

        “impairment review committee” means any committee established under section 51;

        “investigator” means a person appointed under section 71;

        “legal practitioner” has the meaning given to that term in the Legal Practice Act 2003 section 3;

        “medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Act 1894 ;

        “member of the Board” includes a person acting under Schedule 1 clause 3;

        “officer” , in relation to a body corporate, has the meaning given to “officer of a corporation” in the Corporations Act section 9 but does not include an employee of the body corporate unless the employee is concerned in the management of the body corporate;

        “presiding member” means the presiding member of the Board referred to in section 7;

        “register” means the register referred to in section 37;

        “registered” means registered by the Board under this Act;

        “registrar” means the person engaged or employed to be registrar under section 17;

        “registration” includes renewal of registration;

        “respondent” means a person the subject of a complaint.