New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 15

15 Registration may be refused if applicant convicted of offence

(1) The Board may refuse an application for registration if:

(a) the applicant has been convicted of or made the subject of a criminal finding for an offence (either in or outside the State), and

(b) the Board is of the opinion that the circumstances of the offence are such as to render the applicant unfit in the public interest to practise medicine.

(2) The Board is to have regard to the nature of an offence (such as, for example, whether it is of a trivial nature) and the circumstances in which it was committed in making a decision under this section.