New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS ACT 1994 - SECT 17

17 Persons to whom scheme applies

(1) A scheme may provide that it applies to all persons within an occupational association or to a specified class or classes of persons within an occupational association.

(2) A scheme may provide that the occupational association concerned may, on application by a person, exempt the person from the scheme.

(3) A scheme ceases to apply to a person exempted from the scheme as referred to in subsection (2) on and from the date on which the exemption is granted or on and from a later date specified in the exemption.

(4) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person to whom a scheme applies by virtue of section 18, 19 or 20.