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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

2: Registration of, and practising certificates for, health practitioners

13   Principles guiding the prescribing of qualifications

    13 Principles guiding the prescribing of qualifications
In prescribing qualifications under section 12, each authority must be
guided by the following principles:

      (a)  the qualifications must be necessary to protect members of the
public; and

      (b)  the qualifications may not unnecessarily restrict the registration
of persons as health practitioners; and

      (c)  the qualifications may not impose undue costs on health
practitioners or on the public.

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