Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Health Professions Registration Act 2005 - SECT 75

Notice of determinations

75. Notice of determinations



(1) If a determination has been made by a panel suspending the registration of
a health practitioner or imposing conditions on the registration or
endorsement of registration of a health practitioner the responsible board
must give notice of the determination on any website on the Internet
maintained by or on behalf of the board.

(2) The responsible board must also give notice of the determination-

   (a)  if the health practitioner is an employee, to his or her employer;

   (b)  to the Secretary to the Department of Justice for the purposes of the
        Working with Children Act 2005.



(3) The responsible board may also give notice of the determination-

   (a)  in the Government Gazette;

   (b)  to the health practitioner registration authorities in all other
        States or Territories of the Commonwealth and in New Zealand;

   (c)  to the Health Services Commissioner;

   (d)  to any Commonwealth body responsible for the funding of regulated
        health services of the kind provided by the health practitioner;

   (e)  if the responsible board has received a request for information about
        the person in respect of whom the determination has been made from a
        health practitioner registration authority outside Australia, to that
        authority.

(4) If a determination has been made by a panel-

   (a)  imposing any condition on a student undertaking clinical training; or

   (b)  prohibiting a student from undertaking clinical training-

the responsible board must give notice of the determination to the person
providing the course of study in which the student is enrolled and the person
who is supervising the training of the student.

(5) Notice under this section must be given as soon as practicable after the
determination has been made.

(6) If a notification has been made to the responsible board, the responsible
board must notify the notifier of the findings and determinations of any panel
hearing arising from that notification and the reasons for those findings and
determinations within 28 days after they are made unless the responsible board
is of the opinion that it is not in the public interest to do so.

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