Nurses and Midwives Registration Regulations




Dec. 23.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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(2.) Every application pursuant to paragraph (c) of section 13 of
the said Act for registration as a maternity nurse by a person not
qualified by examination shall be made to the Board in or to the
effect of the Form No. 5 in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

(3.) Every application for registration as a nurse, maternity nurse,
or midwife by a person trained elsewhere than in New Zealand shall
be in or to the effect of the Form No. 5 in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

  1. The fees for registration shall be as follow :—
    (a.) In the case of a nurse, maternity nurse, or a midwife trained
    in New Zealand and after passing the final qualifying
    examination (including the fee for examination)—£1.
    (b.) In the case of a maternity nurse not qualified by examination
    but applying pursuant to paragraph (c) of section 13 of the
    said Act—£1.
    (c.) In the case of a nurse, maternity nurse, or midwife trained
    elsewhere than in New Zealand—£1.

?l. The certificate to be granted to nurses, maternity nurses, or
midwives on registration shall be in or to the effect of the Form No. 6
in the Fourth Schedule hereto. The fee for such certificate shall be
five shillings.

OVERSEAS CERTIFICATES.

  1. (1.) No certificate of the qualifications of a nurse, maternity
    nurse, or midwife trained overseas shall be accepted by the Board as
    qualifying the holder for registration unless it is granted after training
    in an institution recognized as a training-school by the Government
    of the State in which it is situated, or by a properly constituted body
    exercising control over the training of nurses, maternity nurses, or
    midwives in that State.

(2.) Every person trained elsewhere than in New Zealand and
applying for registration as a nurse, maternity nurse, or midwife by
virtue of the possession of a certificate of training must give to the
Board satisfactory proof of identity, and such particulars, with
evidence thereof, of the nature of the training undergone and of the
practical experience acquired as the Board demands.

(3.) Before accepting a certificate as sufficient to warrant registration of the holder the Board may, if it thinks fit, require the
applicant to undergo such additional training in New Zealand or to
pass such examination as it specifies.

GENERAL.

  1. The form of request that the applicant’s name shall be
    published in the Gazette, to be forwarded to the Registrar each year
    prior to the thirty-first day of March, shall be in or to the effect of the
    Form No. 7 in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

  2. The particulars of every nurse, maternity nurse, or midwife
    published in the Gazette in the month of April in every year, pursuant
    to section 24 of the said Act, shall be as prescribed in Form No. 8
    in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

APPEALS.

  1. (1.) In the event of the Board refusing to enter the name of
    any person in the Register, or removing the name of any person from
    the Register, the Registrar shall forthwith inform such person clearly
    of the reason for the decision of the Board.

(2.) If such person decides to appeal from such decision a Board
of Appeal shall be set up, as hereinafter provided, consisting of a
Magistrate and two assessors, to hear such appeal. One of the assessors
shall be appointed by the Board and the other by the appellant.

(3.) The appellant shall give notice of appeal in Form No. 9 set
out in the Fourth Schedule hereto, and shall specify thereon the name
of the person whom she appoints to act as assessor on her behalf at
the hearing of her appeal.

(4.) Within thirty-one days after receipt of such notice of appeal
the Board shall inform the appellant of the name of the Magistrate
who will be a member of the Board of Appeal, and of the assessor
appointed by the first-mentioned Board, and shall at the same time
forward a copy of that Board’s decision and the notice of appeal
therefrom to such Magistrate.

(5.) The Board of Appeal shall hear and determine such appeal
at such convenient place and time as may be decided by the Magistrate,
to be not more than sixty-three days from the receipt by the Board
of the notice of appeal. The Magistrate shall cause at least five days’



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