Medical Practitioners Act 1995

   62. Competence programmes---(1) For the purpose of examining or
 improving the competence of medical practitioners to practise medicine,
 the Council may from time to time set or recognise competence programmes
 in respect of medical practitioners who hold or apply for practising
 certificates.

   (2) Any competence programme may be made to apply generally in respect
 of all such medical practitioners, or in respect of a specified medical
 practitioner, or in respect of any specified class or classes of such
 medical practitioners.

   (3) Any competence programme may require a medical practitioner to do
 any 1 or more of the following, within such period, or at such
 intervals, prescribed in the programme:
   (a) Pass an examination:
   (b) Complete a period of practical training:
   (c) Complete a period of practical experience:
   (d) Undertake a course of instruction:
   (e) Permit a registered health professional specified by the Council
         to examine the clinical records kept by the practitioner in
         relation to his or her patients:
   (f) Anything else that the Council considers appropriate.

   (4) The Council may specify a period within which the medical
 practitioners to which a competence programme applies must comply with
 the requirements of the programme.

   (5) The Council may exempt any medical practitioner or class of
 medical practitioners from all or any of the requirements of a
 competence programme.

   (6) Within 15 working days after a competence programme is set or
 recognised by the Council, the Registrar shall notify every medical
 practitioner who is required to undertake the programme of that fact and
 of the details of the programme.