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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

21   Authority may authorise scope of practice or changed scope of practice

    21 Authority may authorise scope of practice or changed scope of practice

  (1)  The responsible authority may authorise a scope of practice for an
applicant who applies to be registered as a health practitioner.

  (2)  The responsible authority may authorise any changes to the existing
scope of practice of a health practitioner who applies for a change in the
authorisation of his or her scope of practice.

  (3)  A change determined under subsection (2) may consist of any 1 or more of
the matters described in section 22(2).

  (4)  If an applicant is, under section 20(4)(b), entitled to an opportunity
to make written submissions and be heard, an authorisation under subsection
(1) or subsection (2) may be determined only after the applicant has
had that opportunity.

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