New Classes of Practitioners Regulations (SOR/2012-230)

Marginal note:Definitions

1 The following definitions apply in these Regulations.

Act

Act means the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. (Loi)

listed substance

listed substance means a substance set out in Schedule 1 to the Benzodiazepines and Other Targeted Substances Regulations, the schedule to Part G of the Food and Drug Regulations or the schedule to the Narcotic Control Regulations, and includes anything that contains the substance.  (substance inscrite)

midwife

midwife means a person who is registered and entitled under the laws of a province to practise midwifery and who is practising midwifery in that province. (sage-femme)

nurse practitioner

nurse practitioner means a person who is registered and entitled under the laws of a province to practise as a nurse practitioner or an equivalent designation and who is practising as a nurse practitioner or an equivalent designation in that province. For the purpose of this definition, a designation is equivalent when it designates a person who

• (a) is a registered nurse;

• (b) possesses additional educational preparation and experience related to health care;

• (c) can autonomously make diagnoses, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe drugs and perform other specific procedures under the laws of a province; and

• (d) is practising their profession in accordance with, for example, the following provincial laws, as amended from time to time:

  • (i) the Extended Practice Regulation, Man. Reg. 43/2005, made under The Registered Nurses Act of Manitoba, C.C.S.M., c. R40,

  • (ii) Ontario Regulation 275/94, made under the Nursing Act, 1991 of Ontario, S.O. 1991, c. 32, or

  • (iii) the Regulation respecting Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec classes of specialities related to the performance of acts contemplated in section 36.1 of the Nurses Act, R.R.Q., c. I-8, r. 8, made under the Nurses Act of Quebec, R.S.Q., c. I-8. (infirmier praticien)

podiatrist

podiatrist means a person who is registered and entitled under the laws of a province to practise podiatry or chiropody and who is practising podiatry or chiropody in that province. (podiatre)