Western Australian Numbered Acts

OSTEOPATHS ACT 2005 (NO. 33 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 Osteopaths Registration Board of Western Australia established by section 5;

        “certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration issued under section 38;

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

        “complainant” means a person who lodges a complaint under section 51(1) or (2);

        “complaint” means —

            (a)         a complaint lodged under section 51(1) or (2);

            (b)         a complaint referred under section 51(3);

            (c)         a matter the complaints assessment committee has determined under section 51(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 60(3);

        “complaints assessment committee” means the committee established under section 49;

        “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 47;

        “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 48;

        “impairment review committee” means any committee established under section 50;

        “investigator” means a person appointed under section 70;

        “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;

        “osteopath” means a person who is registered;

        “osteopathy” means the static and dynamic assessment of human bio-mechanics, the diagnosis of somatic dysfunction, and the alleviation of somatic dysfunction by the application of manual treatments complemented by health education, but does not include the use of drugs or operative surgery;

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

        “register” means the register referred to in section 36;

        “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;

        “somatic dysfunction” means impaired or altered function of related skeletal, arthrodial and myofascial structures of the somatic system (body framework), including associated vascular, lymphatic and neural elements.