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South Australia
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (South
Australia) (Protection of Title—Paramedics) Amendment
Bill 2013
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia)
Act 2010.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia)
Act 2010
4Amendment of Schedule 2—Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law
120AUse of title "paramedic"
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
(South Australia) (Protection of Title—Paramedics) Amendment
Act 2013.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
(South Australia) Act 2010
4—Amendment
of Schedule 2—Health Practitioner
Regulation National Law
Schedule 2—after section 120 insert:
120A—Use of title "paramedic"
(1) Subject to this
section, a person must not knowingly or recklessly—
(a) take or use the title of "paramedic", whether with or without any
other words; or
(b) take or use a
title, name, word or description that, having regard to the circumstances in
which it is taken or used, indicates or could be reasonably understood to
indicate the person is a paramedic,
unless the person holds qualifications prescribed by regulations made by
the Governor under the Act for the purposes of this section.
Maximum penalty: $30 000.
(2) For the purposes of
subsection (1)(b),
a paramedic is a health practitioner who provides pre-hospital emergency care
services or community-based alternative models of care as a result of a request
for emergency medical assistance.
(3)
Subsection (1)
applies to a person while he or she is practising in South Australia.
(4) The Minister
may, by notice in the Gazette, confer exemptions from this
section—
(a) on a specified person or specified classes of persons; or
(b) in specified circumstances or specified classes of
circumstances.
(5) An exemption under
subsection (4)
may be granted by the Minister on such conditions as the Minister thinks
fit.
(6) The Minister may, at any time, by further notice in the
Gazette—
(a) vary or revoke an exemption; or
(b) vary or revoke a condition of an exemption.
(7) A person must not contravene or fail to comply with a condition of an
exemption.
Maximum penalty: $30 000.