Preamble, The Allied Health Professions Act, 2022

THE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT, 2022 Being an Act to provide for the establishment of the Allied Health Professions Council, to provide for the regulation, including the registration of allied health professions and allied health facilities and to provide for other related matters. [ ] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Date of commencement. 47. A person registered under this Act who has acquired additional qualifications approved by the Council may, on the payment of a prescribed fee, have the additional qualification included in the register. PART IX– MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 48. (1) The publication of any list in the Gazette under this Act shall prima facie be evidence that- (a) a person whose name appears therein is registered as indicated in the Gazette; (b) the allied health facility mentioned in the Gazette at the time of publication is duly registered under this Act; (c) in the case of the absence of the name of an allied health professional or allied health facility from the relevant list, that allied health professional or facility is not registered under this Act. (2) A copy or extract from a register certified under the hand of the registrar shall be received in evidence without further proof unless the contrary is shown. 49. A registered allied health professional engaged in private practice may demand reasonable charges for the attendance on, treatment of or service rendered to any person under this Act and for drugs supplied and shall be entitled to sue for or recover the same, with full costs, in a court of competent jurisdiction. Publication of prima facie evidence. Charges. Additional qualifications. SIGNED this 10th day of February , 2022. DR. JULIUS MAADA BIO, President. LS PART I – PRELIMINARY