325Saving of endorsement of midwife practitioner

325 Saving of endorsement of midwife practitioner

325 Saving of endorsement of midwife practitioner

(1) If, immediately before the commencement of section 75 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2022, a registered health practitioner’s registration was endorsed as being qualified to practise as a midwife practitioner, the practitioner may do any of the following as if section 96 had not been repealed—

(a) if the practitioner continues to comply with any approved registration standard relevant to the endorsement—continue to hold and renew the endorsement, subject to any conditions stated in the endorsement;

(b) while holding the endorsement, use the title “midwife practitioner” or otherwise hold himself or herself out as holding the endorsement.

(2) Section 119 continues to apply in relation to a claim by any other registered health practitioner to hold, or to be qualified to hold, an endorsement as a midwife practitioner as if section 96 had not been repealed.

s 325: Ins 2022 No 22, sec 77.