Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1--INTRODUCTORY
1. Name of Act
3. Dictionary
4. Notes
5. Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc
PART 2--WHAT DOES THIS ACT DO?
6. Outlines
7. Regulation of health professionals
8. How does a health professional's behaviour come to a health profession
9. Reports
10. Personal assessment panel
11. Professional standards panel
12. Interaction with Human Rights Commission Act
PART 3--MAIN OBJECT AND IMPORTANT CONCEPTS
13. Main object
14. Who is a health professional?
15. What is a health service?
16. What is a regulated health service?
17. When is someone a registered health professional?
18. What is the required standard of practice?
19. What is the relevant health profession board?
PART 4--REGULATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
20. Decision to regulate health profession
21. Deciding whether regulation necessary or desirable
22. How may the regulations regulate health professions?
23. Suitability to practise requirements
PART 5--HEALTH PROFESSION BOARDS
Division 5.1--Establishment and functions of boards
24. Establishment of health profession boards
25. Number of health profession boards
26. What do health profession boards do?
27. Obligation to exercise functions diligently
28. Reporting on exercise of functions
29. Failure by health profession board to exercise functions diligently
30. Discharging health profession board
31. Effect of discharge—interim board
Division 5.2--Status and powers of health profession board
32. Legal status of health profession board
33. Banking and investment of money of board
34. Prohibition on business
35. Borrowing powers
36. Community representative list
PART 6--REGULATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Division 6.1--Registration of health professionals
37. Who may be registered as a health professional?
Division 6.2--Performance reviews
38. Review of health professional's professional practice
39. Initial and final review reports
PART 7--OCCUPATIONAL DISCIPLINE--HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
40. Meaning of health professional—pt 7
41. Grounds for occupational discipline
42. Application to ACAT for occupational discipline
43. Considerations before making occupational discipline orders—suspension or cancellation of
44. Occupational discipline orders
45. Emergency orders
46. Referral to panel by ACAT
PART 7A--NOTIFICATION AND REVIEW OF DECISIONS
47. Definition of reviewable decision—pt 7A
48. Reviewable decision notices
49. Applications for review
PART 8--OFFENCES
70. Meaning of registered for pt 8
71. Offence to pretend registration
72A. False representation of person as health professional
73. Conditions on practice
73A. Direction to engage in unprofessional conduct
74. Change of registered details
75. No insurance
PART 9--REPORTING
Division 9.1--Object of part 9
76. Object of pt 9
Division 9.2--Reporting
77. Meaning of registered health professional for div 9.2
78. Who may report?
79. Who may be given a report?
80. False or misleading report
81. How must report be made?
82. Help in making report
83. Further information about report etc
84. Notice to health professional reported
PART 10--JOINT CONSIDERATION WITH COMMISSION
85. What does pt 10 apply to?
86. Consultation with commission etc
87. Indication that offence committed
PART 11--PERSONAL ASSESSMENT PANELS
Division 11.1--Establishment and purpose
88. Establishment of personal assessment panel
89. Referral of application by ACAT
90. What does a personal assessment panel do?
91. Who must be on a personal assessment panel?
Division 11.2--Assessments by personal assessment panels
92. Natural justice
93. Assessment by personal assessment panel
94. Powers of personal assessment panel on inquiry
94A. Lawyer assisting personal assessment panel
95. Legal representation before personal assessment panel
96. How does personal assessment panel reach a decision?
97. Action of personal assessment panel after inquiry
98. Inappropriate referral to personal assessment panel
99. Referral to board
Division 11.3--Action by board after inquiry by personal assessment panel
100. Board consideration of referral by personal assessment panel
101. Acceptance of condition
102. Decision on referred health professional
103. Applications for condition review
104. Review of application
105. Action by board on recommendations by personal assessment panel
PART 12--PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS PANELS
Division 12.1--Establishment of professional standards panel
106. Establishment of professional standards panel
107. What does a professional standards panel do?
108. Who must be on a professional standards panel?
109. Referral of application by ACAT
Division 12.2--Inquiries by professional standards panels
110. When may professional standards panel choose not to inquire?
111. How does professional standards panel reach a decision?
112. Inappropriate referral to professional standards panel
Division 12.3--Procedural requirements for inquiry hearings
113. Setting inquiry hearing times
114. Conduct of inquiry hearing
115. Inquiry by professional standards panel
116. Role of commission
117. Inquiry hearings usually closed
118. Interim actions
119. Adjournment
119A. Lawyer assisting professional standards panel
120. Representation at inquiry hearing
121. Record of standards inquiry
122. Action of professional standards panel after inquiry
123. Inquiry report
124. Publication of standards inquiry report
PART 13--PROTECTION AND INFORMATION
125. Meaning of informed person—pt 13
126. Protection of participants and people reporting
127. Protection of informed people
128. Nondisclosure of reports
129. Secrecy
PART 14--MISCELLANEOUS
130. Exemptions from Act
131. Costs of supervising protective action
132. Determination of fees by board
133. Determination of fees by Minister
134. Regulation-making power
DICTIONARY
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