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CHIROPRACTIC AND OSTEOPATHY PRACTICE ACT 2005 (NO 30 OF 2005) - SECT 28

28—Registration of chiropractic and osteopathy students

        (1)         A person is not entitled to—

            (a)         undertake a course of study that provides qualifications for registration on the register of chiropractors; or

            (b)         provide chiropractic as part of a course of study related to chiropractic being undertaken by the person in a place outside the State,

unless the person is registered under this section as a chiropractic student.

        (2)         A person is not entitled to—

            (a)         undertake a course of study that provides qualifications for registration on the register of osteopaths; or

            (b)         provide osteopathy as part of a course of study related to osteopathy being undertaken by the person in a place outside the State,

unless the person is registered under this section as a osteopathy student.

        (3)         A person is eligible for registration as a chiropractic student on the chiropractic student register, or as an osteopathy student on the osteopathy student register, if the person, on application to the Board, satisfies the Board that he or she—

            (a)         genuinely requires registration on that register

                  (i)         to enable the person to undertake a course of study that provides qualifications for registration on the register of chiropractors or register of osteopaths, as the case may be; or

                  (ii)         to enable the person to provide chiropractic or osteopathy as part of a course of study related to chiropractic or osteopathy, as the case may be, being undertaken by the person in a place outside the State; and

            (b)         is medically fit to provide chiropractic or osteopathy of the kind authorised by registration on the register to which the application relates; and

            (c)         is a fit and proper person to be registered on the register to which the application relates.

        (4)         If a person who applies for registration, or reinstatement of registration, on the chiropractic student register or osteopathy student register is not, in the opinion of the Board, medically fit to provide chiropractic or osteopathy of the kind authorised by registration on that register, the Board may register the person on that register in pursuance of this subsection ("limited student registration") and impose 1 or more of the following conditions on the registration:

            (a)         a condition limiting the kind of chiropractic or osteopathy that the person may provide;

            (b)         a condition limiting the period during which the registration will have effect;

            (c)         a condition requiring that the person be supervised in the provision of chiropractic or osteopathy by a particular person or by a person of a particular class;

            (d)         such other conditions as the Board thinks fit.



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