New South Wales Repealed Acts New South Wales Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) A person who is not a registered medical practitioner must not sign any medical certificate of the cause of death of any deceased person.Maximum penalty: 4 penalty units.
(2) No certificate required by or under any Act from any physician, surgeon, licentiate in medicine and surgery or other medical practitioner is valid unless the person signing the certificate is a registered medical practitioner.
(3) This section does not prevent a person who holds a qualification entitling the person to practise medicine or surgery in a country, State (other than New South Wales) or Territory and who holds an appointment as a medical officer on any vessel registered in that country, State or Territory from signing:(a) any medical certificate of the cause of death of any person who dies on the vessel, or(b) a certificate required by or under any Act in relation to any passenger on or member of the crew of the vessel.