Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

20 Authority must inform applicant that it proposes to depart from indicated scope of practice or to decline application




    20 Authority must inform applicant that it proposes to depart from
indicated scope of practice or to decline application

  (1)  In assessing an application under section 17, an authority must consider
whether the applicant is qualified and competent to practise within the
indicated scope of practice submitted by the applicant under section
17(2)(b)(i).

  (2)  If the scope of practice that an authority proposes to authorise for an
applicant differs from that indicated by the applicant under section
17(2)(b)(i), whether in respect of conditions to be stated or otherwise,
the authority must inform the applicant in writing why it
proposes to authorise a different scope of practice.

  (3)  If, in assessing an application under section 17, the authority proposes
to decline the application, the authority must inform the applicant in writing
why the authority proposes to decline the application.

  (4)  When the authority informs an applicant under subsection (2) or
subsection (3), the authority must also give the applicant---

      (a)  a copy of any information on which the authority relies in proposing
to authorise a different scope of practice or to decline the application;
and

      (b)  a reasonable opportunity to make written submissions and be heard,
either personally or by his or her representative, in respect of the matter.

  (5)  Subsection (4)(a) is subject to section 154.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 34(5)

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