Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Professions Registration Act 2005 - SECT 30

Register of health practitioners

30. Register of health practitioners



(1) A responsible board must keep a register of all health practitioners to
whom the responsible board has granted registration under this Act.

(2) The following particulars must be included on the register against the
name of the health practitioner to whom they apply-

   (a)  the registration number;

   (b)  a description of the registration granted;

   (c)  the division of the register (if any) that the health practitioner is
        registered in;



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   (e)  the year the health practitioner was first registered by the board
        under this Act or any corresponding previous enactment;

   (f)  any current endorsement of registration referred to in Division 2 of
        this Part;

   (g)  any current condition imposed on the registration or endorsement of
        registration;



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        (i)    any qualification to be noted on the register under section 12.

(2A) The responsible board may also include in the register the following
particulars for each health practitioner to whom the board has granted
registration-

   (a)  the health practitioner's principal academic qualifications and the
        training completed by the health practitioner for registration,
        including the name of the person or body that awarded the
        qualification or provided the training and the year the qualification
        was awarded;

   (b)  the address from which the health practitioner provides regulated
        health services or a postal address for the practitioner.

(3) A responsible board must also record and maintain on a separate part of
the register particulars of any health practitioner whose registration is
currently cancelled or suspended.

(4) Despite subsection (2)(g), a responsible board must omit from the register
particulars of any condition imposed on the registration of a health
practitioner as the result of an agreement with the board about ill health or
impairment or an investigation or hearing into the ill health or impairment of
the health practitioner unless the responsible board is of the opinion that it
is in the interests of clients of the health practitioner's services or the
public to know the particulars of the condition.

(5) A responsible board may publish the register on a website maintained by or
in the name of the responsible board on the Internet.

(6) The register may be inspected at the office of the responsible board by
any person during ordinary office hours without charge.

(7) A person may obtain a copy of or an extract from the register on payment
of the fee determined by the responsible board.

(8) A responsible board must not provide a copy of the register to any person
unless satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so.

(9) A health practitioner's private address must not appear on that part of
the register which is published or open to the public for inspection, unless
the private address is also the address nominated by the health practitioner
for publication under subsection (2A)(b).