Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

6: Structures and administration

116 Conditions for designating health services as health profession




    116 Conditions for designating health services as health profession
Before making a recommendation under section 115(1), the Minister must,
after consultation with any organisation that, in the Minister's opinion,
has an interest in the recommendation, be satisfied of the following
matters:

      (a)  either---

          (i)     that the provision of the health services concerned poses a
risk of harm to the public; or

          (ii)    that it is otherwise in the public interest that the
provision of health services be regulated as a profession under this Act:

      (b)  that providers of the health services concerned are generally agreed
on---

          (i)     the qualifications for any class or classes of providers of
those health services; and

          (ii)    the standards that any class or classes of providers of those
health services are expected to meet; and

          (iii)   the competencies for scopes of practice for those health
services.

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