South Australian Consolidated Acts

CHIROPRACTIC AND OSTEOPATHY PRACTICE ACT 2005 - SECT 25

25—Registers

        (1)         The Registrar must keep the following registers:

            (a)         a chiropractic student register;

            (b)         an osteopathy student register;

            (c)         a register of chiropractors;

            (d)         a register of osteopaths;

            (e)         a register of persons who have been removed from the chiropractic student register, osteopathy student register, register of chiropractors or register of osteopaths under this Act or any other Act or law or former Act or law and who have not been reinstated to that register.

        (2)         A register referred to in subsection (1) (other than in paragraph (e)) must include, in relation to each person on the register—

            (a)         the person's full name and nominated contact address; and

            (b)         the qualifications for registration held by the person; and

            (c)         particulars of any condition of registration or limitation that affects or restricts the person's right to provide chiropractic or osteopathy; and

            (d)         information prescribed by the regulations,

and may include other information as the Board thinks fit.

        (3)         A registered person must, within 1 month after changing his or her name or nominated contact address, inform the Registrar in writing of the change.

Maximum penalty: $250.

        (4)         The register referred to in subsection (1)(e)—

            (a)         must not include any person who is dead; and

            (b)         must include, in relation to each person on the register, a statement of—

                  (i)         the register from which the person was removed; and

                  (ii)         the reason for removal of the person; and

                  (iii)         the date of removal; and

                  (iv)         if the removal was consequent on suspension—the duration of the suspension; and

                  (v)         if the person has been disqualified from being registered on a register—the duration of the disqualification; and

            (c)         must have deleted from it all information relating to any person who has been reinstated on each register from which the person was removed.

        (5)         The Registrar is responsible to the Board for the form and maintenance of the registers.

        (6)         The Registrar must correct an entry in a register that is not, or has ceased to be, correct.

        (7)         The registers must be kept available for inspection by any person during ordinary office hours at the office of the Registrar and the registers or extracts of the registers may be made available to the public by electronic means.

        (8)         A person may, on payment of the prescribed fee, obtain a copy of any part of a register kept under this Act.

        (9)         A certificate stating that a person was, or was not, registered on a particular register at a particular date or during a particular period and purporting to be signed by the Registrar will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be accepted in legal proceedings as proof of the registration, or of the fact that the person was not so registered, on the date or during the period stated in the certificate.