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Medical and Dental Practitioner (Budget Amendment) Act 2018

REPUBLIC OF FIJI


MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONER (BUDGET AMENDMENT) ACT 2018

ACT NO. 28 OF 2018

I assent.

J. K. KONROTE

President


[13 July 2018]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONER ACT 2010

ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji—

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Medical and Dental Practitioner (Budget Amendment) Act 2018.

(2) This Act comes into force on a date or dates appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3) In this Act, the Medical and Dental Practitioner Act 2010 is referred to as the “Principal Act”.

Section 2 amended

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new definitions—

““public private partnership hospital” and “public private partnership dispensary” mean respectively a hospital or dispensary operated, maintained or managed by a private entity through a public private partnership, and includes a health centre and a nursing station, notwithstanding the ownership of the hospital or dispensary;”.

Section 34 amended

3. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in subsection (4) after “must”, inserting “, within 7 days,”;
(b) in subsection (5)—
(c) deleting subsection (6) and substituting the following—
(d) in subsection (7) after “from”, inserting “the requirements for an application for”;
(e) after subsection (8), inserting the following new subsection—
(f) in subsection (9) after “must”, inserting “, within 7 days,”; and
(g) in subsection (11) after “must”, inserting “, within 7 days,”.

Section 36 amended

4. Section 36 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following—
(b) in subsection (5) after “from”, inserting “the requirements for an application for”;
(c) after subsection (6), inserting the following new subsection—
(d) in subsection (7) after “must”, inserting “, within 7 days,”;
(e) after subsection (7), inserting the following new subsection—
(f) in subsection (9) after “must”, inserting “, within 7 days,”.

Section 38 amended

5. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended after subsection (3) by inserting the following new subsection—

“(4) For the purpose of subsection (3)(a) and (d), where a person is employed, including contractually engaged, at a public private partnership hospital or public private partnership dispensary during a period of conditional registration—

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 12th day of July 2018.


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