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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72547</law_id><section_number>54.1-2957.13</section_number><catch_line>Exceptions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Licensure and Certification of Other Practitioners of the Healing Arts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Licensed midwife and practice of midwifery; definitions" href="/54.1-2957.7/">54.1-2957.7</a> through <a class="law" title="Immunity" href="/54.1-2957.12/">54.1-2957.12</a> shall not prevent or prohibit:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Any licensed midwife from delegating to an apprentice or personnel in his personal employ and supervised by him such activities or functions that are nondiscretionary and that do not require the exercise of professional <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for their performance, if such activities or functions are authorized by and performed for the licensed midwife and responsibility for such activities or functions is assumed by the licensed midwife; or <a id="paragraph-261212" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2957.13/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Any person from performing tasks related to the practice of midwifery under the direct and immediate supervision of a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy, a <span class="dictionary">certified nurse midwife</span>, or a licensed midwife during completion of the North American Registry of Midwives&#x2019; Portfolio Evaluation Process Program within a time period specified in regulations adopted by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> or while enrolled in an accredited midwifery education program. <a id="paragraph-261213" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2957.13/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2005, cc. 719, 917.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
