Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ACT 2004 (NO. 38 OF 2004) - SECT 44

    (1)     The health professions tribunal, formed by the president alone, may exercise the tribunal's functions in relation to the following:

        (a)     an application from a health profession board for an interim or emergency order about someone's registration;

        (b)     an application from a health profession board for directions about how to proceed in relation to a report or complaint about a health professional;

        (c)     an application in relation to which each matter to be resolved is admitted or not contested or in relation to which the parties have agreed to the decision or order to be made;

        (d)     an application in relation to which the parties, including the relevant health profession board, agree to the president exercising the powers of the tribunal alone;

        (e)     an application that a hearing, or part of a hearing, be closed;

        (f)     conducting a preliminary hearing under section 58.

    (2)     All other applications must be decided by a health professions tribunal panel.