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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

3: Competence, fitness to practise, and quality assurance

54   Application for, and conferral of, protection on quality assurance activity




    54 Application for, and conferral of, protection on quality assurance
activity

  (1)  The sponsor of a quality assurance activity may apply for the activity
to be protected by forwarding an application to the Minister.

  (2)  An application under subsection (1) must---

      (a)  comply with any requirements for the time being in force under
subsection (5); and

      (b)  nominate a person who is to be responsible for the activity and who
is suitable for appointment under section 55.

  (3)  The Minister may from time to time, by written notice, declare a quality
assurance activity to be protected on being satisfied that---

      (a)  the sponsor of the activity has duly completed an application under
subsection (1); and

      (b)  the person nominated as the person responsible for the activity is
suitable for appointment under section
55; and

      (c)  it is in the public interest that the protections conferred by
sections 59 to 62 should apply in respect of the activity.

  (4)  Every notice issued under subsection (3), unless sooner revoked, remains
in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued, but this
subsection does not prevent the Minister from issuing another notice in respect
of the same quality assurance activity.

  (5)  The Director-General of Health may from time to time, by notice in the
Gazette, state requirements relating to the form, content, and
quality standards of an application under subsection (1); and such requirements
may, without limitation, require statements in the application to be verified
by statutory declaration.

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