New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHIROPRACTORS ACT 2001 - SECT 21

21 Notification of convictions, criminal findings and charges

(1) A registered chiropractor must notify the Board in writing within 7 days after:

(a) the chiropractor is convicted of an offence or made the subject of a sex/violence criminal finding for an offence, in this State or elsewhere, giving details of the conviction or criminal finding and any penalty imposed for the offence, or

(b) criminal proceedings are commenced against the chiropractor, in this State or elsewhere, in respect of a sex/violence offence alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of chiropractic, or

(c) criminal proceedings are commenced against the chiropractor, in this State or elsewhere, in respect of a sex/violence offence alleged to have been committed against a minor or to involve child pornography (whether or not alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of chiropractic).

(2) The regulations may provide that subsection (1) (a) does not apply in respect of particular offences.