Malaysia legislation
Section 5
Section 5
(1)
The Minister may make regulations for any of the following purposes:
(a)
for regulating the formation, maintenance and publication of the Register;
(b)
for regulating the conditions of admission to the Register;
(c)
for regulating the conduct of any examinations which may be prescribed as a condition of admission to the
Register and any matters ancillary to or connected with any such examinations;
(d)
for prescribing the causes for which, the conditions under which and the manner in which nurses may be removed from the Register, and the procedure for the restoration to the Register of nurses who have been removed therefrom;
(e)
for prescribing the constitution of the Board and for regulating the summoning of meetings of the Board and the proceedings (including quorum) of the Board;
(f)
for enabling the Board to constitute committees and for authorizing the delegation to committees of any of the powers of the Board and for regulating the proceedings (including quorum) of committees;
(g)
for prescribing the fees to be paid; and
(h)
generally, for any matters regarding which the Minister considers that provision should be made for carrying this Act into effect (including the issue of certificates to nurses registered under this Act and with respect to the titles which may be used and the uniforms or badges which may be worn by nurses so registered), and for prescribing anything which is to be prescribed.
(2)
Regulations under this section shall contain provisions—
(a)
requiring as a condition of the admission of any person to the Register that that person shall have undergone the prescribed training, and shall possess the prescribed experience, in the nursing of the sick; and 014e.fm Page 7 Monday, March 27, 2006 11:38 AM
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(b)
requiring that the prescribed training shall be carried out in an institution approved by the Board in that behalf and prescribing the requirements for admission to such an institution and the courses of instruction to be given therein.
(c)
(Deleted by Act A486).
(3)
All regulations made under this Act shall be laid before the
Dewan Rakyat and if a resolution be passed, within three months after any such regulations have been laid on the table of the
Dewan, resolving that the regulations or any of them shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the regulations in respect of which it is so resolved shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
Admission to register of persons trained outside Malaysia