Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The commission may make a public statement in relation to a health care worker if the commission believes on reasonable grounds that there is a serious risk to the health or safety of the public in relation to—
(a) a health service provided or offered by the health care worker; or
(b) the health care worker being convicted of an offence under any of the following in relation to a health service provided by the health care worker:
(i) the Competition and Consumer Act 2010
(Cwlth);
(ii) the Fair Trading (Australian Consumer Law) Act 1992
;
(iii) the Health Act 1993
, section 127 (Provision of regulated health service by person not health practitioner);
(iv) the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (ACT)
, part 7, division 10;
(v) the Public Health Act 1997
.
(2) The commission may make a public statement in relation to a health service if the commission believes on reasonable grounds that there is a serious risk to the health or safety of the public arising from the health service.
(3) A public statement may be made in any form.
(4) A public statement made in relation to a health care worker may include any of the following:
(a) the identity of the health care worker;
(b) information, including a warning, about—
(i) the health care worker; or
(ii) the health service provided by the health care worker;
(c) if the health care worker provides the health service in connection with a provider—
(i) the identity of the provider; and
(ii) information, including a warning, about the provider;
(d) information contained in a final order made in relation to the health care worker.
(5) A public statement made in relation to a health service may contain information, including a warning, about the health service generally.
(6) The commission—
(a) may vary or withdraw a public statement; and
(b) if a statement is varied or withdrawn—must set out the reason for the variation or withdrawal in the same form as the statement was made.