New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 16

16 Registration may be refused if applicant deregistered on disciplinary grounds in another jurisdiction

(1) The Board may refuse an application for registration if the person has been deregistered under a foreign law:

(a) for any reason relating to the conduct of the applicant amounting to professional misconduct (within the meaning of this Act), or

(b) on any basis relating to the applicant’s physical or mental capacity to practise medicine.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person is "deregistered" under a foreign law when:

(a) the person’s name is removed from any register or roll established or kept under a foreign law, or

(b) the person’s entitlement to practise medicine is suspended under a foreign law (in the case of a person who is not entitled to registration under the Mutual Recognition laws).

(3) In this section:
"foreign law" means the law of any other State or a Territory or of another country providing for the registration, licensing or certification of medical practitioners.