New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 61

61 General powers to caution, reprimand, counsel etc

(1) A Committee or the Tribunal may do any one or more of the following:

(a) caution or reprimand the person,

(b) order that the person seek and undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or counselling,

(c) direct that such conditions, relating to the person’s practising medicine, as it considers appropriate be imposed on the person’s registration,

(d) order that the person complete such educational courses as are specified by the Committee or Tribunal,

(e) order that the person report on his or her medical practice at the times, in the manner and to the persons specified by the Committee or Tribunal,

(f) order that the person seek and take advice, in relation to the management of his or her medical practice, from such persons as are specified by the Committee or Tribunal.

(2) If the person is not registered, an order or direction can still be given under this section but has effect only so as to prevent the person being registered unless the order is complied with or to require the conditions concerned to be imposed when the person is registered, as appropriate.

(3) When a Committee or the Tribunal acting under this section makes an order or directs that any condition be imposed on a person’s registration, the Committee or Tribunal may order that a contravention of the order or condition will result in the person being deregistered. The order or condition concerned is then a "critical compliance order or condition" under this section.