South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts43—Obligation to report medical unfitness or unprofessional conduct of
physiotherapist or physiotherapy student
(1) If—
(a) a
health professional who has treated, or is treating, a patient who is a
physiotherapist or physiotherapy student; or
(b) a
person who provides physiotherapy through the instrumentality of a
physiotherapist or physiotherapy student; or
(c) the
person in charge of an educational institution at which a
physiotherapy student is enrolled in a course of study providing
qualifications for registration on the register of physiotherapists,
is of the opinion that the physiotherapist or physiotherapy student is or may
be medically unfit to provide physiotherapy, the person must submit a written
report to the Board setting out his or her reasons for that opinion and any
other information required by the regulations.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(2) If a
physiotherapy services provider or exempt provider is of the opinion that a
physiotherapist or physiotherapy student through whom the provider provides
physiotherapy has engaged in unprofessional conduct, the provider must submit
a written report to the Board setting out the provider's reasons for that
opinion and any other information required by the regulations.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(3) The Board must
cause a report made under this section to be investigated.
(4) In this
section—
"health professional" means—
(a) a
medical practitioner; or
(b) a
psychologist; or
(c) any
other person who belongs to a profession, or who has an occupation, declared
by the Board, by notice in the Gazette, to be a profession or occupation
within the ambit of this definition.