S-0.1 - Midwives Act

Section 12 Disposition versions

1999-09-24

12. Subject to the rights and privileges granted by law to other professionals, no person may perform an act described in section 6 unless the person is a midwife.

In particular, section 6 shall not be construed as prohibiting nurses from providing a woman and her child with the nursing care required during pregnancy, labour and delivery and the postnatal period.

The provisions of the first paragraph do not apply to an act performed by a person acting in accordance with

(1)  a regulation made under paragraph h of section 94 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26);

(2)  an agreement between the Government and a Native nation represented by the band councils of all the communities forming the Native nation, a Native community represented by its band council or by its council in the case of a Northern village, a group of communities so represented or any other Native group, allowing a Native person who is not a member of the Order to perform acts described in section 6 in the territory defined in the agreement, in accordance with the conditions fixed therein and to the extent that the terms of the agreement are observed.

1999, c. 24, s. 12.