HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW ACT 2009 - SECT 32 Replacement of s 146 (How notification is made)

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW ACT 2009 - SECT 32

32 Replacement of s 146 (How notification is made)

National Law provisions, section 146 —

omit, insert—

146 Notifications to be dealt with under Health Ombudsman Act 2013

(1) The Health Ombudsman Act 2013 applies to a notification (including the making of a notification) under division 2 or 3 —

(a) as if references in that Act to a complaint or complainant were references to a notification or notifier; and

(b) with other necessary changes.

(2) If a person makes a notification to the health ombudsman under division 2 or 3 , the health ombudsman must deal with it under the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 as if it were a complaint made under part 3 , division 2 of that Act.