Allied Health Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 63 of 1982)

Chapter 5 : General and Supplementary Provisions

42. Repeal of laws, and transitional provisions
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(1)Subject to the provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4), the laws specified in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the third column of the Schedule.

 

(2)Anything done under any provision of any law repealed by subsection (1) shall, unless inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been done under the provisions of this Act.

 

(3)Every person –
(a)who was registered otherwise than provisionally under the Homeopaths, Naturopaths, Osteopaths and Herbalists Act, 1974 (Act No. 52 of 1974); or
(b)whose name was entered on the list referred to in section 2 of the Chiropractors Act, 1971 (Act No. 76 of 1971),

shall, if the registration contemplated in paragraph (a) or the entry contemplated in paragraph (b) was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, be deemed to be registered under this Act as a practitioner in the profession in respect of which he was so registered or his name was so entered.

 

(4)Any document purporting to be a certificate issued to a practitioner referred to in subsection (3) by virtue of a registration contemplated in paragraph (a) of the said subsection or of an entry contemplated in paragraph (b) of that subsection, and evidencing the fact of any such registration or entry, shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a registration certificate.