New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 78A

78A Board may require practitioner to undergo examination

(1) The Board may by notice given to a registered medical practitioner who is the subject of a matter referred or proposed to be referred to an Impaired Registrants Panel direct the practitioner to undergo an examination by a specified registered medical practitioner or a specified registered health practitioner at a specified time and place.

(2) A practitioner must not be directed to undergo an examination under subsection (1) unless it is reasonable to require the examination, given the nature of the matter that is the subject of the referral or proposed referral. The time and place specified for the examination must be reasonable and the examination is to be at the expense of the Board.

(3) If a registered medical practitioner refuses, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a direction to undergo an examination under subsection (1), that refusal is, for the purposes of this Act and any inquiry or appeal under this Act, evidence that the practitioner does not have sufficient physical and mental capacity to practise medicine.