2009 BILL 59

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Second Session, 46th General Assembly 58 Elizabeth II, 2009
BILL 59
AN ACT TO AMEND THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ACT, 2005
Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................
Second Reading.................................................................................................................................
Committee............................................................................................................................................
Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................
Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................
HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C. Minister of Health and Community Services
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Occupational Therapists Act, 2005 to

· give the board, subject to the approval of the minister, regulation-making powers respecting the issuance of different types of licences for the practice of occupational therapy; and

· remove provisions requiring referrals to an occupational therapist from legally qualified medical practitioners or others identified in regulation.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ACT, 2005

Analysis

1. S.30 Amdt.
Regulations

2. S.32 Amdt.
Limitation to practice

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2005 cO-4.1

1. (1) Subsection 30(1) of the Occupational Therapists Act, 2005 is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (b) the following:

(b.1) providing for the issuance of different classes of licences;

(2) Paragraph 30(1)(e) of the Act is repealed.

2. Subsection 32(2) of the Act is repealed.