New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PSYCHOLOGISTS ACT 2001 - SECT 51

51 General powers of the Board

(1) The Board may do any one or more of the following:

(a) caution or reprimand the person,

(b) make an order for the withholding or refunding of part or all of the payment for the psychology services that are the subject of the complaint,

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

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

(e) order that the person complete a specified educational course or courses,

(f) order that the person report on his or her psychology practice at specified times, in a specified manner and to specified persons,

(g) order that the person seek and take advice, in relation to the management of his or her psychology practice, from a specified person or persons.

(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.