Medical Act (amended)

BILL NO. 89

1st Session, 57th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
47 Elizabeth II, 1998



Government Bill



Medical Act
(amended)



The Honourable James A. Smith, M.D.
Minister of Health



First Reading: November 24, 1998

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: November 27, 1998

Third Reading: December 3, 1998 (NO AMENDMENTS)

Explanatory Note

This Bill sets out circumstances under which a hospital must report to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia a change in a physicians hospital privileges.

An Act to Amend Chapter 10
of the Acts of 1995-96,
the Medical Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 78 of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1995-96, the Medical Act, is repealed and the following Section substituted therefor:

78 A hospital shall report in writing to the Registrar any restriction, suspension, revocation or other change of, or failure to renew, the hospital privileges of a member or associate member of the College, including any resignation affecting those privileges, but not including

(a) an expansion of privileges; or

(b) a suspension of privileges pursuant to the by-laws of the hospital where the suspension is

(i) due solely to the failure of the member or associate member to complete a health record within a time provided for by or pursuant to the by-laws of the hospital,

(ii) automatic upon such failure, and

(iii) automatically rescinded upon completion of the health record,

and shall include the reasons for such change in privileges.

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