Hairdressers Registration Board of WA

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Functions of the Board

As a statutory authority the Board may only do what parliament has expressly authorised and whatever may fairly be regarded as incidental to, or consequential upon, those things which the legislature has authorised.

Section 7 of the Act details the Board's powers and duties as:

1. To hold examinations and submit to the Minister a panel of persons for appointment as examiners;
2. To issue or cancel certificates of registration;
3. To take proceedings for offences against this Act or any regulation;
4. Generally, to do any other act, or exercise any other power or perform any other duty necessary for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect; and
5. To recommend to the Commissioner of Public Health, standards of hygiene and sanitation to be observed in premises where hairdressing is practiced.
6. The Board may appoint a registrar and such other officers and servants as are necessary for the purposes of the Board.

Section 11 of the Act requires the Board to keep a register of hairdressers indicating their qualifications and the class or classes in which they are registered.

The Registrar shall, on inquiry by any person, inform that person whether or not a hairdresser nominated is registered, and if the hairdresser is registered, the class of registration held.

Section 21 of the Act empowers the Board with the approval of the Governor to make regulations for, or with respect to:

1. Regulating its own proceedings;
2. Prescribing for the purposes of this Act classes of hairdressing;
3. Prescribing the fees to be paid to members of the Board and to deputies;
4. Regulating subject to this Act the issue of certificates and badges of registration under this Act and the conditions of admission to the register;
5. Prescribing in respect of the several prescribed classes of hairdressing the course of training for persons desiring to be registered under this Act;
6. Regulating subject to this Act the admission to the register of persons who were at the commencement of this Act already engaged in the practice of hairdressing;
7. Regulating and supervising the conduct of examinations in respect of the several prescribed classes of hairdressing and the remuneration of examiners;
8. Prescribing subject to this Act the fees to be paid for examinations, certificates and registrations;
9. Prescribing standards of safety to be observed in premises where hairdressing is practiced;