MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1983 - SECT 52

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1983 - SECT 52

52—Obligation to report unfitness

        (1)         Where a medical practitioner is treating a patient who is a medical practitioner in relation to an illness that, in the opinion of the first mentioned medical practitioner, has resulted in or is likely to result in mental or physical incapacity that seriously impairs or may seriously impair his patient's ability to practise medicine, he shall submit a written report to the Board stating—

            (a)         his reasons for that opinion; and

            (b)         the views of any other medical practitioner in relation to the matter that are known to him; and

            (c)         all other prescribed information.

Penalty: One thousand dollars.

        (2)         The Board shall investigate a report made pursuant to subsection (1).