Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The main object of this Act is to protect the public from risk of harm by ensuring that the people who provide health services are competent to provide health services and to help health professionals in professions regulated by this Act to achieve and maintain the required standard of practice.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), this Act achieves its object by doing the following:
(a) regulating health professions if appropriate;
(b) providing for clear criteria for regulating health professions;
(c) providing for a system of registration of health professionals that includes the issue of practising certificates for continuing registration;
(d) providing for a system that continuously reviews the standard of practice of health professionals;
(e) setting up health profession boards to regulate health professions;
(f) providing a system for the public to report concerns about the standard of practice of particular health professionals;
(g) providing a system for dealing with reports about health professionals' contravention of the required standard of practice or failure to satisfy the suitability to practise requirements;
(h) providing a system for dealing with health professionals who are found to be contravening, or to have contravened, the required standard of practice or who do not satisfy the suitability to practise requirements.