South Australian Consolidated Acts

PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICES ACT 1973 - SECT 22

22—Qualification for registration

        (1)         Subject to this Act, a person—

            (a)         who has attained the age of eighteen years; and

            (b)         who is of good fame and character; and

            (c)         who—

                  (i)         is the holder of a degree from a recognised university, in the course of attaining which, or after attaining which, he has successfully passed such subjects in the discipline of psychology as constitute a progressional three year course of study in psychology and satisfies the Board—

                        (A)         that he was practising psychology in this State immediately before the commencement of this Act; or

                        (B)         that, either before or after, or partly before and partly after, that commencement, he had not less than three years' experience in the practice of psychology that in the opinion of the Board is sufficient to render him competent to practise psychology at the time he seeks registration under this Act; or

                  (ii)         has passed such examinations as are considered by the Board necessary to establish that he has sufficient qualifications for registration under this Act; or

                  (iii)         is a member of any body established outside the State or has obtained any qualification outside the State in respect of which membership or qualification the Board is of the opinion that the membership or qualification, as the case may be, is sufficient qualification for registration under this Act; and

            (d)         who has paid the prescribed fee,

shall be entitled to be registered by having his name entered on the register.

        (2)         Every registration effected pursuant to this section shall be in force until the thirtieth day of September in the year next following the year on which the registration was so effected.

        (3)         Any registered psychologist may on payment of the prescribed fee renew his registration for the year next ensuing after the thirtieth day of September in any year.

        (4)         In this section a "recognised university" means a university for the time being declared pursuant to subsection (5) of this section to be a recognised university.

        (5)         The Board may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare a university to be a recognised university for the purposes of this Act and may by a notice published in a like manner amend, vary or revoke such a declaration.