HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 149A General powers to caution, reprimand, counsel etc [NSW[#93]

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 149A

149A General powers to caution, reprimand, counsel etc [NSW[#93]

(1) The Tribunal may do any one or more of the following in relation to the registered health practitioner--

(a) caution or reprimand the practitioner;

(b) impose the conditions it considers appropriate on the practitioner's registration;

(c) order the practitioner to seek and undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or counselling (including, but not limited to, psychological counselling);

(d) order the practitioner to complete an educational course specified by the Tribunal;

(e) order the practitioner to report on the practitioner's practice at the times, in the way and to the persons specified by the Tribunal;

(f) order the practitioner to seek and take advice, in relation to the management of the practitioner's practice, from persons specified by the Tribunal.

(2) The Tribunal may do any one or more of the following in relation to the student--

(a) caution or reprimand the student;

(b) impose the conditions it considers appropriate on the student's registration;

(c) order the student to seek and undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or counselling (including, but not limited to, psychological counselling);

(d) order the student to complete an educational course specified by the Tribunal.

(3) If the health practitioner is no longer registered, an order or direction may still be given under this section but has effect only--

(a) to prevent the practitioner being registered unless the order is complied with; or

(b) to require the conditions concerned to be imposed when the practitioner is registered.

(4) If the Tribunal makes an order or imposes a condition on the registered health practitioner's or student's registration, the Tribunal may order that a contravention of the order or condition will result in the practitioner's or student's registration being cancelled.

(5) The order or condition concerned is then a
"critical compliance order or condition" .