Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Professions Registration Act 2005 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purposes

1. Purposes

The main purposes of this Act are to-

   (a)  protect the public by providing for the registration of health
        practitioners and a common system of investigations into the
        professional conduct, professional performance and ability to practise
        of registered health practitioners; and

   (b)  protect the public by providing for the registration of students of
        the health professions and investigations into the suitability of
        those students to undertake clinical training; and

   (c)  regulate the advertising of regulated health services; and

   (d)  establish or continue in operation various boards responsible for
        registering health practitioners and establish or continue the funds
        administered by those boards; and

   (e)  regulate the operation of pharmacies, pharmacy businesses, pharmacy
        departments and pharmacy depots; and



   (f)  repeal various Acts relating to the registration of health
        practitioners and to make consequential amendments to other Acts; and

   (g)  provide for other related matters.