Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Professions Registration Act 2005 - SECT 62

Notice of a professional standards panel hearing

62. Notice of a professional standards panel hearing



(1) The responsible board must-

   (a)  fix a time and place for the hearing to be conducted; and

   (b)  serve a notice of the time and place of the hearing on the health
        practitioner by post; and

   (c)  serve a notice of the time and place of the hearing on any notifier by
        post setting out that the panel may grant leave to the notifier to
        make submissions at the panel hearing and of the fact that the
        notifier's identity is not to be published or broadcast.

(2) A notice of a panel hearing that is served on a health practitioner must-

   (a)  state the nature of the hearing and the allegations made against the
        health practitioner; and

   (b)  give the time and place of the hearing; and

   (c)  state that the health practitioner may choose to have the matter
        determined at a Tribunal hearing by VCAT under Part 4 and state the
        differences between a panel hearing and a Tribunal hearing; and

   (d)  state that-

   (i)  there is no right to legal representation at the panel hearing; and

   (ii) the health practitioner is entitled to be present and to make
        submissions and to be accompanied by another person; and

   (iii) the panel hearing is not open to the public except that the panel may
        grant leave to the notifier to make submissions at the panel hearing;
        and

   (e)  list the possible findings the panel can make or orders the panel can
        give.