Eligibility to act as administering practitioner
55 Eligibility to act as administering practitioner
A person is eligible to act as an administering practitioner for a patient if—
the person is—
a medical practitioner who holds specialist registration, or
a medical practitioner who holds general registration and has practised the medical profession for at least 5 years, or
a medical practitioner who is an overseas-trained specialist who holds limited registration or provisional registration, or
a nurse practitioner, and
the person has completed approved training, and
the person meets other requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section, and
the person is not a family member of the patient, and
the person does not know or believe that the person—
is a beneficiary under a will of the patient, or
may otherwise benefit financially or in any other material way from the death of the patient, other than by receiving reasonable fees for the provision of services as the administering practitioner for the patient.
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