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CHIROPRACTORS ACT 2001 - SECT 4

Definitions

4 Definitions

In this Act:
"Board" means the Chiropractors Registration Board constituted under this Act.
"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Tribunal.
"Commission" means the Health Care Complaints Commission constituted under the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"Committee" means the Chiropractic Care Assessment Committee constituted under this Act.
"competence" to practise chiropractic has the meaning given by section 9.
"complaint" means a complaint against a chiropractor under Part 4 (Complaints and disciplinary proceedings).
"conduct" means any act or omission.
"criminal finding" means a finding by a court that a person is guilty of an offence without proceeding to conviction.

Note: Section 117 makes special provision with respect to the application for the purposes of this Act of the Criminal Records Act 1991 in respect of criminal findings.
"Deputy Chairperson" means a Deputy Chairperson of the Tribunal.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department of Health.
"exercise" a function includes perform a duty.
"function" includes a power, authority or duty.
"health registration Act" has the same meaning as in the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"health service" has the same meaning as in the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"Impaired Registrants Panel" means an Impaired Registrants Panel constituted under this Act.
"impairment" has the meaning given by section 10.
"Mutual Recognition laws" means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth and the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 of the Commonwealth.
"professional misconduct" is defined in Part 4 (Complaints and disciplinary proceedings).
"prohibition order" has the same meaning as in section 53 (3A).
"Register" means the Register of Chiropractors kept by the Board under this Act.
"registered" means registered under this Act.
"Registrar" means the Registrar of the Board holding office as such under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 .
"registration authority" has the same meaning as in the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"sex/violence criminal finding" means a criminal finding for a sex/violence offence.
"sex/violence offence" means an offence involving sexual activity, acts of indecency, child pornography, physical violence or the threat of physical violence.
"Tribunal" means the Chiropractors Tribunal constituted under this Act.
"unsatisfactory professional conduct" is defined in Part 4 (Complaints and disciplinary proceedings).


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