Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Amendment Act 43 of 1980

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43 of 1980

The Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Amendment Act 43 of 1980 intends:

  • to amend the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act, 1974, so as
    • to do away with the prescribing of qualifications obtained by virtue of examinations conducted by any examining authority situated outside the Republic, entitling any holder thereof to registration under the said Act as a psychologist;
    • to provide for the temporary registration, for training purposes, in respect of supplementary health service professions, of persons not permanently resident within the Republic;
    • to make new provision for the registration with the South African Medical and Dental Council of persons practising supplementary health service professions;
    • to prohibit the use of certain names by certain unregistered persons;
    • to bring certain expressions in the said Act into line with others;
    • to further regulate the effect of tariffs of fees for medical practitioners, dentists and psychologists and in respect of supplementary health service professions; to effect a change in relation to the power to make regulations; and
    • to further define the powers of the Minister, of Health; and
  • to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

9 May 1980

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