📜 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Amendment Bill 2017
This bill amends the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010 to implement nationally agreed reforms, including regulating paramedics, clarifying the roles of nurses and midwives, and improving complaints management.
Impact
Health practitioners, especially paramedics, nurses, and midwives, will be affected. The public will benefit from strengthened protections and clearer regulatory processes. Complainants and practitioners involved in disciplinary matters will experience changes in process.
Key Changes
Parliamentary Progress
- LA Second Reading MovedLA16 Aug 2017
- LA IntroducedLA16 Aug 2017
- LA Consideration in DetailLA5 Sept 2017
- LA AmendedLA5 Sept 2017
- LA Second Reading AgreedLA5 Sept 2017
- LA Third ReadingLA6 Sept 2017
- LC Second Reading MovedLC6 Sept 2017
- LC Second Reading AgreedLC22 Mar 2018
- LC Third ReadingLC29 Mar 2018
- LC AmendedLC10 Apr 2018
- Royal Assent19 Apr 2018
Penalty Provisions2 found
Practising paramedicine without registration during the transitional period
“Period after participation day during which an individual does not commit an offence under sections 113 and 116”
Application of sections 113 and 116 to individual temporarily practising paramedicine in another jurisdiction
“Application of sections 113 and 116 to individual temporarily practising paramedicine in another jurisdiction”
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