Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies if the Director is, in an investigation under this Act, investigating
whether or not a health care worker has failed to comply with a code of
conduct applying to the health care worker.
(2) The Director may
make an order (an interim prohibition order ) in relation to the health care
worker —
(a)
prohibiting the health care worker from providing any health service, or a
health service specified in the order, for a period, of not more than 12
weeks, specified in the order; or
(b)
imposing any conditions the Director considers appropriate on the provision of
any health service, or a health service specified in the order, by the health
care worker for a period, of not more than 12 weeks, specified in the order.
(3) The Director must
not make an interim prohibition order in relation to a health care worker
unless —
(a)
either —
(i)
the Director reasonably believes that the health care
worker has failed to comply with a code of conduct applying to the health care
worker; or
(ii)
the health care worker has been convicted of a prescribed
offence;
and
(b) the
Director is satisfied that it is necessary to make the interim prohibition
order to avoid a serious risk to —
(i)
the life, health, safety or welfare of a person; or
(ii)
the health, safety or welfare of the public.
(4) The Director may,
on the expiration of the period specified in the interim prohibition order
under subsection (2)(a) or (b), make another interim prohibition order in
relation to the health care worker.
[Section 52B inserted: No. 35 of 2022 s. 28.]