Third Session, Thirty-Eighth Legislature
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Bill 207
THE MEDICAL AMENDMENT ACT
| Explanatory Note |
(Assented to )
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
The Medical Act is amended by this Act.
The following is added after section 36:
Despite section 36, Parts VIII to X and the regulations and by-laws, a member shall not be found guilty of professional misconduct or of incompetence solely on the basis that the member practises a therapy that is non-traditional or departs from the prevailing medical practice unless there is evidence that proves that the therapy poses a greater risk to a patient's health than the traditional or prevailing practice.
This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.