Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Professions Registration Act 2005 - SECT 52

Report of health assessment

52. Report of health assessment



(1) The assessing health practitioner must give a report of his or her
assessment to the investigator.

(2) The investigator must-

   (a)  give a copy of the report to the health practitioner or student within
        7 days after receiving the report unless subsection (3) applies; and

   (b)  discuss the report with the health practitioner or student, and, in
        the case of an adverse finding in the report, the possible ways of
        dealing with that finding.

(3) If the report contains information of a medical or psychiatric nature
concerning the health practitioner or student, and it appears to the
investigator that the disclosure of that information to the health
practitioner or student might be prejudicial to the physical or mental health
or well-being of the health practitioner or student, the investigator may
decide not to give that information to the health practitioner or student but
to give it instead to a registered medical practitioner and a
registered health practitioner nominated by that health practitioner or that
student.

(4) Before acting under subsection (3), the investigator must report to the
responsible board and, if the investigator is not a health practitioner and
the responsible board is of the opinion that it is necessary for the
investigation of the matter to be continued by a health practitioner, the
responsible board may appoint a health practitioner as an investigator to
continue the investigation.