HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (SPECIAL EVENTS EXEMPTION) ACT 1997 - SECT 9 Conditions on practice by visiting health professionals

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (SPECIAL EVENTS EXEMPTION) ACT 1997 - SECT 9

9 Conditions on practice by visiting health professionals

(1) An order under section 5 may impose conditions on the provision of health care services by a visiting health professional.

(2) Any such condition may apply generally or may apply to a particular special event or a particular class of persons.

(3) The regulations may also make provision for or with respect to conditions to be imposed on the provision of health care services by a visiting health professional.

(4) In addition to any condition imposed by an order under section 5 or by the regulations, it is a condition of the provision of health care services by a visiting health professional that the visiting health professional must not, in the course of providing such services, possess or supply any substance that cannot be possessed or supplied by any equivalent local health professional under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 or the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 .

(5) In subsection (4),
"local health professional" means a person who is a registered health practitioner within the meaning of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) and is not a visiting health professional.