First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 41

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HEARING AID PRACTITIONERS ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

SUSAN SULLIVAN

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Hearing Aid Practitioners Act to

repeal a subsection of the Act

that will no longer be required when the

Health Professions Act is proclaimed for audiologists; and

clarify and confirm that

section

31 of the Act is intended to apply to an audiometric technician working under

the supervision of a hearing aid practitioner.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HEARING AID PRACTITIONERS

ACT

Analysis

S.31 Amdt.

Restriction

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2005 cH-2.01

(1) Paragraph 31(

a) of the Hearing Aid Practitioners Act is

repealed.

(2) Paragraph 31(

b) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(

b) an audiometric technician working under the

supervision of a hearing aid practitioner who assists in the measurement of

human hearing,

Commencement

2. Subsection 1(1) of this Act comes into force on

the date that the Health Professions Act comes

into force for audiologists.

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