New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 8

8 Interim registration available in certain cases

(1) An applicant for registration may be granted interim registration in either of the following cases:

(a) if the person is entitled to registration under section 4 (Entitlement to general registration based on qualifications and training) but it is not practicable to wait until the Board can consider the application,

(b) if the person would be entitled to registration under section 5 (Entitlement to conditional registration for interns) except for the fact that a degree or award to which the applicant is entitled has not yet been conferred or granted by the institution concerned.

(2) A person authorised by the Board for the purposes of this section may grant an applicant for registration interim registration in accordance with this section.

(3) A person’s interim registration is in force from the time of its grant until the person is given notice that any of the following things has happened:

(a) the Board has granted him or her registration,

(b) the Board has refused the application for registration,

(c) the Board has cancelled the interim registration.

(4) The Board may cancel a person’s interim registration for any reason that it considers proper and must then immediately give the person notice of the cancellation.

(5) A person who holds interim registration is for all purposes taken to be a registered medical practitioner.

(6) The date on which a person is registered is (if the person was the holder of interim registration immediately before the person is registered), taken to be the date on which interim registration was granted.

(7) Interim registration granted under this section is taken to have been granted by the Board.