New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 69A

69A Duration of conditions-impairment matters

(1) This section applies if the Board imposes conditions on the registration of a registered medical practitioner under section 66 and the matter is referred to an Impaired Registrants Panel.

(2) The conditions imposed by the Board have effect as follows:

(a) if the matter is subsequently dealt with by the Board as a complaint (see section 82), until the complaint about the practitioner is disposed of, or

(b) until the conditions are removed by the Board,

whichever happens first.

(3) The Board is not required to alter or remove conditions imposed under this Division merely because a practitioner agrees to conditions being imposed on the practitioner’s registration in accordance with the recommendations of an Impaired Registrants Panel (as referred to in section 81).

(4) A registered medical practitioner who agrees to conditions being imposed on his or her registration in accordance with the recommendations of an Impaired Registrants Panel may, by notice in writing to the Board, request that the conditions imposed under this Division be altered or removed.

(5) On receipt of such a request, the Board is to review the matter, and may:

(a) refuse to alter or remove any of the conditions, or

(b) alter or remove the conditions.

(6) The Board is to give the practitioner concerned notice in writing of its decision in respect of the request.

(7) The Board may specify in the notice a period in which a further request by the practitioner under this section is not permitted. The Board may reject a request that the conditions be altered or removed if it is made during that period.

(8) This section:

(a) does not prevent conditions being imposed under another provision of this Act, and

(b) is subject to anything done by the Tribunal on an appeal under section 95.