New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 127

127 Medical services corporation to appoint practitioner to be responsible for record keeping

(1) A corporation required to make and keep records under the regulations must, by notice in writing to the Board, appoint a registered medical practitioner to be responsible for record keeping by the corporation. There must be such an appointment in force at all times, otherwise the corporation is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) To be effective the notice of appointment must be accompanied by a notice of acceptance of the appointment signed by the appointed person.

(3) An appointment may be revoked by notice in writing to the Board given either by the corporation or by or on behalf of the appointed person. The appointment is automatically revoked if the person appointed ceases to be a registered medical practitioner.

(4) If a corporation contravenes a provision of the regulations made for the purposes of section 126, the person appointed under this section to be responsible for record keeping by the corporation at the time of the contravention is taken to have contravened the provision that the corporation contravened.

(5) A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision pursuant to this section whether or not the corporation has been proceeded against or convicted.

(6) This section does not affect any liability imposed on a corporation for an offence committed by the corporation.