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)

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.

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1 Section 78 of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1995-96, the Medical Act, is repealed and the following Section substituted therefor: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(iii) automatically rescinded upon completion of the health record,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.