HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 277
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HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 277
Other registrations
277 Other registrations
(1) This section applies if--
(a) immediately before
the participation day for a participating jurisdiction, a class of persons
held a type of registration in, or was endorsed or otherwise authorised to
practise, a health profession under the law of that jurisdiction; and
(b)
from the participation day, persons in that class are not registered, endorsed
or otherwise authorised to practise the profession by another provision of
this Division.
(2) From the participation day, persons in that class are
taken to hold the type of registration in the health profession that is
specified for the class of persons in the registration transition plan
prepared under subsection (3) by the National Board established for that
profession.
(3) Before the participation day, each National Board must
prepare a registration transition plan that includes details of the type of
registration that is to be held under this Law by a class of persons referred
to in subsection (1).
(4) In preparing a registration transition plan, a
National Board must--
(a) comply with any directions given by the Ministerial
Council that are relevant to the transitional arrangements for the
registration of the class of persons; and
(b) have regard to the principle
that persons in the class are to be given the widest possible scope of
practice of the profession that is consistent with--
(i) the authority the
class of persons had to practise the profession before the participation day;
and
