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5th Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 212

THE REGULATED HEALTH PROFESSIONS AMENDMENT ACT


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(Assented to                                         )

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. R117 amended

1   The Regulated Health Professions Act is amended by this Act.

2   The following is added after subsection 87(2):

Continuing competency re prevention of forced sterilization

87(3)   The continuing competency program of a college whose members are authorized to perform the reserved act of managing labour or the delivery of a baby must include education and training to ensure that no person experiences forced sterilization.

Coming into force

3   This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

Explanatory Note

This Bill requires the college of a regulated health profession whose members manage labour or delivery of babies to include in its continuing competency program education and training to ensure that no person experiences forced sterilization.