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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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

29   Decisions of authority as to practising certificate and scope of practice




    29 Decisions of authority as to practising certificate and scope of
practice

  (1)  When an application for an annual practising certificate has been
referred to the authority concerned by the Registrar, the authority must not
decide that
the certificate should be issued unless it is satisfied that the applicant
meets the required standard of competence.

  (2)  In order to satisfy the criterion stated in subsection (1), the
authority may include new conditions in the applicant's scope of practice or
may
vary existing conditions in that scope of practice.

  (3)  The authority, after considering any application for an annual
practising certificate, may decide that the applicant should be issued with an
annual
practising certificate, either with changes, determined under subsection (2),
to the applicant's scope of practice or without such changes.

  (4)  As soon as practicable after the authority makes a decision under
subsection (3), the Registrar must---

      (a)  issue the certificate to the applicant; and

      (b)  notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for any conditions
included in the health practitioner's scope of practice; and

      (c)  make any necessary amendments to the registration of the health
practitioner's scope of practice.

  (5)  The authority, after considering an application for an annual practising
certificate, may decide that---

      (a)  the applicant should not be issued with an annual practising
certificate until the applicant has fulfilled 1 or more conditions determined
by the
authority; or

      (b)  the applicant should not be issued with an annual practising
certificate.

  (6)  As soon as practicable after the authority makes a decision under
subsection (5), the Registrar must notify the applicant in writing of the
decision and the reasons for it.

  (7)  If the authority declines an application for an annual practising
certificate under subsection (5)(a), it may, nevertheless,
authorise the issue of an interim practising certificate to the applicant under
section 31, pending
fulfilment of the conditions imposed.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 54

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