New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 32

32 Deregistration on basis of disciplinary action under foreign law

(1) This section applies when it is proved to the satisfaction of that Board that, after a person was registered under this Act, the person was deregistered under a foreign law:

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

(b) for any reason relating to the person’s physical or mental capacity to practise medicine.

(2) When this section applies and the foreign law concerned is a law of a place in Australia, the Board must remove the name of the person from the Register. If the foreign law is a law of a place outside Australia, the Board may remove the name of the person from the Register.

(3) The Board may restore any name so removed from the Register, if it thinks it appropriate in the circumstances.

(4) 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 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).