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The Health Professions Registration Act 2005 ("the Act") was implemented on 1 July 2007.  As a result, the new Medical Radiation Practitioners Board of Victoria was established, replacing the Medical Radiation Technologists Board.

The main purpose of the new Act is to protect the public by providing for the registration of health practitioners and a common system of investigations into the professional conduct, professional performance and ability to practice, of registered health practitioners.

UPDATE: 3 October 2008. The board has joined with the other Australian State and Territory Boards to prepare a submission to include medical radiation technology as a nationally registered health profession. To view a copy of this submission go to http://www.mrtboard.qld.gov.au/
 
UPDATE: National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions
(PDF, 32kb)
Medical Radiation Practitioners Board: An Overview (PDF, 204kb)
by Associate Professor Marilyn Baird
(President: Medical Radiation Practitioners Board)
The Act provides that the functions of the new Board include:
to register persons who comply with the requirements of this Act for registration so that they may practise as health practitioners (that is, radiographers, radiation therapists or nuclear medicine technologists).
to approve courses of study that provide qualifications for registration;
to regulate the standard practice;
to investigate the professional conduct, professional performance or ability to practice of registered health practitioners and impose sanctions where necessary;
to issue and publish codes for the guidance of registered health practitioners relating to the provision of regulated health services and about professional performance;
to issue and publish guidelines about the minimum terms and conditions of professional indemnity insurance; and
to initiate, promote, support, fund or participate in programs that the Board considers will improve health practitioners ability to practice and students ability to undertake clinical training.