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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

7: Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments and repeals, and transitional provisions

216   Continuation of pending investigations, inquiries, and disciplinary proceedings

Complaints and disciplinary proceedings

    216 Continuation of pending investigations, inquiries, and disciplinary
proceedings

  (1)  All investigations, inquiries, and disciplinary proceedings under a
former registration Act that have been commenced before the commencement of
this
section and that have not been completed before that commencement are to be
continued and completed as if the former registration Act had not been repealed.

  (2)  Every committee and tribunal constituted under a former registration Act
in respect of complaints and disciplinary proceedings continues to have and may
exercise all its powers, functions, and duties under that Act for the purpose
of giving effect to subsection (1).

  (3)  For the purpose of continuing, under subsection (1), any investigation,
inquiry, or proceeding concerning a health practitioner or former health
practitioner, any reference in a former registration Act to a board or council
with which the health practitioner or former health practitioner was previously
registered must be read as a reference to the successor authority.

  (4)  For the purpose of continuing, under subsection (1), any investigation,
inquiry, or proceeding concerning a health practitioner or former health
practitioner, the successor authority may impose a disciplinary levy.

  (5)  Sections 131 and 132 apply, with the necessary modifications, to a levy
imposed under subsection (4).

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