A-2.2 - Act to promote access to family medicine and specialized medicine services

Section 16 Disposition versions

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16. General practitioners may, in the cases and on the conditions prescribed by government regulation, apply to the regional department of general medicine in the region where they carry on most of their medical practice to be exempted from all or some of their obligations under the first paragraph of section 4 or sections 11 and 12.

Medical specialists may, in the cases and on the conditions prescribed by government regulation, apply to the president and executive director of the institution where they practise to be exempted from all or some of their obligations under section 13 or 14.

Exceptionally, the regional department or the president and executive director, as applicable, may, in a case that is not covered by regulation and for a serious reason, in particular to meet a specific need of the users an institution serves, temporarily exempt a physician who has applied for an exemption from all or some of the physician’s obligations referred to in the first and second paragraphs.

The regional department or the president and executive director must respond to every application within 15 days of receiving it.

The regulation referred to in the first paragraph must set out the conditions for exemption applicable to general practitioners who carry on all or some of their medical practice in one of the institutions listed in Schedule I or within the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5). Such general practitioners must submit their application for an exemption to the regional department of general medicine designated by the Minister.

2015, c. 25, s. 1.