Adoption by reference and interaction. Section 4 makes the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, as in force from time to time, apply as a law of Tasmania and to be treated as part of this Act. That creates a direct textual interaction where the National Law's provisions operate as Tasmanian law, subject to the local modifications and definitions supplied in this statute (s 3, s 5). The Act therefore does not operate in isolation: it imports the substantive and procedural rules of the National Law while carving out particular Tasmanian statutory applications and providing transitional directions.
Exclusion of particular Tasmanian Acts. Section 7 expressly prevents a listed set of Tasmanian Acts, or parts of Acts, from applying to the National Law or instruments made under it. The list includes the Acts Interpretation Act 1931, the Audit Act 2008, the Penalty Units and Other Penalties Act 1987, the Right to Information Act 2009, the Freedom of Information Act 1991, the Ombudsman Act 1978 and the Personal Information Protection Act 2004, as well as specified parts of the Financial Management Act 2016 (s 7(a)-(j)). This is a direct statutory interaction: for matters governed by the National Law, the usual Tasmanian statutory frameworks for interpretation, audit, FOI, Ombudsman complaints and penalty unit calculation do not apply unless expressly preserved elsewhere in the Act.
Savings and continuation where things are in progress. Sections 18, 19, 20, and 22 are all interactional devices to preserve ongoing regulatory and administrative activity initiated under former Tasmanian Acts. Complaints being dealt with at participation day are, by s 18(2)(a)-(b), to be dealt with by the National Board but continue to be dealt with under the former Act; if referral to a former tribunal is appropriate, the responsible tribunal may deal with the matter as if it were the former tribunal (s 18(2)(c)-(d)). Similarly, ss 22(2)-(3) preserve the operation of notifications under excluded legislation and Ombudsman complaints that were in progress immediately before participation day. Section 19 allows continuation and institution of offences proceedings begun or capable of being begun by a local registration authority, but transfers those powers to the Secretary (s 19(1)-(2)). Section 20 requires outgoing local registration authorities to provide final reports and audited statements to the Minister (s 20(1)-(2)). These provisions ensure legal continuity across the intersection between former State Acts and the incoming National Law.
Interplay with duties and duties-exempting local laws. Section 10 exempts from duty, under the Duties Act 2001, transfers of "dutiable property" from a local registration authority to the National Agency made in accordance with the National Law. That interacts directly with the Duties Act 2001 and removes a Tasmanian tax cost associated with transferring assets to the National Agency for the purposes of the national scheme (s 10).
Parliamentary and regulation procedure across jurisdictions. Section 15 prescribes how regulations under the National Law are to be dealt with in Tasmania: regulations published by the Victorian Government Printer must be notified in the Tasmanian Gazette within 21 days, laid before each House within ten sitting-days, and take effect on or from a day specified in the regulation (s 15(1)(a)-(c)). If a House passes a resolution to disallow within 15 sitting-days after notice, s 15(2) requires application of s 246(2) of the National Law and the Minister must notify the Ministerial Council. Section 14 requires the Minister to cause amendments to the National Law to be tabled in each House within 10 sitting-days from the Queensland Royal Assent date (s 14(1)). These provisions create a procedural bridge between the interstate legislative processes that will amend or publish the National Law and Tasmanian parliamentary oversight.
Adjustment of references in other Tasmanian Acts. Section 21 modifies how references to a "person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania)" are to be read in other Acts: such a reference does not include a student or a person holding non-practising registration insofar as the reference enables or requires a practitioner to act in the course of their profession (s 21(1)). For the pharmacy profession, a reference in another Act to a person registered in the pharmacy profession does not include a person with provisional registration unless that Act provides otherwise (s 21(2)). This is a textual interaction that will affect licensing statutes, health-centre authorisations or other regulatory Acts that reference registration status for permissions or duties.
Administrative arrangements. Section 23 assigns administration of the Act to the Minister for Health and to the Department of Health and Human Services until an administrative arrangements order under s 4 of the Administrative Arrangements Act 1990 provides otherwise (s 23). That determines which executive instruments and personnel within Tasmania are responsible for interaction and coordination between the State and the National Agency during the transition.
Schedules and revocations. Schedules 1-3 list the Tasmanian profession-specific Acts, subordinate instruments and proclamations that the Act repeals, rescinds or revokes (Schedules 1-3). This directly modifies statutory architecture by removing the prior Tasmanian legislative scaffolding and replacing it with the imported National Law, subject to the continuing transitional provisions.
Overall, the Act creates a structured legal interface between the National Law and Tasmanian law: it imports the National Law wholesale, establishes local definitions and institutions, disapplies specific Tasmanian statutes for matters under the National Law, preserves certain pending matters under the old statutes, and prescribes the procedural steps for regulations and parliamentary oversight.