Australian Capital Territory Repealed Regulations Australian Capital Territory Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1--PRELIMINARY
1. Name of regulation
3. Dictionary
3A. Offences against regulation—application of Criminal Code etc
CHAPTER 2--HEALTH PROFESSION BOARDS
PART 2.1--ESTABLISHMENT OF HEALTH PROFESSION BOARDS
4. Establishment of health profession boards
PART 2.2--HEALTH PROFESSION BOARD MEMBERS
5. Board president
6. Board deputy president
7. Eligibility to remain in office—board president
8. Eligibility to remain in office—board deputy president
9. Board members—election or appointment
10. Appointment of board members
11. Consultation about appointment to board
12. Community representatives
13. Eligibility to remain in office—board members
14. Proposal to remove board member
15. Decision on application to remove board member
16. Leave of board members
17. Payment of board members
18. Payment of assistants
19. Extraordinary expenses etc of health profession boards
20. Employment of staff
21. Functions of executive officer
22. Delegation by board
PART 2.3--ELECTIONS
Division 2.3.1--General
23. Definitions for pt 2.3
24. Dates for elections
26. List of health professionals
27. Registered health professionals to be notified of dates
28. Eligibility for nominations etc
29. Nominations
30. Hour of nomination
31. Withdrawal of nomination
32. Application of Electoral Act, s 110
33. Declaration of candidates
34. If no more candidates than positions
35. If no candidates
36. If more candidates than positions
37. Eligibility to vote
38. Number of votes
39. Positions on ballot paper
40. Distribution of ballot papers
41. Manner of voting
42. Replacement of ballot papers
43. After voting
44. Scrutiny
45. Appointment of scrutineers
46. Conduct of scrutineers
47. Candidates not to participate in conduct of election
48. Declaration etc of results
49. Term of elected board members
50. Destruction of election material
51. Scrutiny centres
52. Approved forms for elections
Division 2.3.2--Application of ch 2 to first elections and suspended boards
52A. Application of ch 2 to first election for professions previously unregulated under the
52C. Application of ch 2 to elections if board suspended
Division 2.3.3--Casual and temporary vacancies in elected positions
53. Definitions for div 2.3.3
54. Notice of long casual vacancy
55. Publication of notice about casual vacancy
56. Candidates for casual vacancy
57. Publication of candidates' details
58. Determination of candidate to fill vacancy
59. Board nominees
60. Term of board member declared elected under div 2.3.3
61. Temporary vacancies
Division 2.3.4--Disputed elections
62. Definitions for div 2.3.4
63. Court of Disputed Health Elections
64. Powers of the court
65. Court's decisions are final
66. Validity may be disputed after election
67. People entitled to dispute elections
68. Form of disputed election application
69. Time for filing disputed election application
70. Registrar to serve copies of disputed election application
71. Parties to disputed election application
72. Withdrawal of disputed election application
73. Hearing and decision on leave application
74. Person ceasing to be respondent to disputed election application
75. End of disputed election application
76. Hearing disputed election applications
77. Declarations and orders of court
78. Illegal election practices
79. Bribery or undue influence by person elected
80. Immaterial delays and errors in relation to elections
81. Inquiries by court
82. Rejected ballot papers
83. Evidence that people were not allowed to vote
84. Inspection of electoral papers
85. Commissioner not prevented from accessing documents
86. Registrar to serve copies of court declarations on certain people
87. Effect of court declarations
88. Court procedure
89. Legal representation limited in court proceeding
90. Costs may be ordered against Territory
Division 2.3.5--Electoral offences
91. Multiple votes prohibited
92. Interference with voting
93. Giving completed ballot papers to commissioner
94. Opening envelopes containing ballot papers
95. Influencing of votes by officers
96. Violence and intimidation
97. Voting fraud
PART 2.4--HEALTH PROFESSION BOARD MEETINGS
98. When are board meetings held?
99. Board meetings usually in public
100. Ministerial referrals to board
101. Presence at board meetings
102. Presiding member at board meetings
103. Board quorum
104. Voting at board meetings
105. Records of board meetings
106. Board meeting procedures
107. Disclosure of interests by board members
PART 2.5--HEALTH PROFESSION BOARD FUNCTIONS
108. Board to seek to form ties
109. Performance of board on standards
110. Performance of board on applications and reports
111. Board's obligation to send renewal notices
CHAPTER 3--REGISTRATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
PART 3.1--APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION
112. Application for registration—Act, s 37 (5) (a)
113. Registration of health professionals
114. Suitability to practise requirements
115. General competence to practise
115A. Short-term registration—Act, s 37 (5) (b)
116. Conditional registration
117. When is conditional registration in public interest?
118. Specialist area registration
119. Powers of health profession boards to require information
120. Length of registration
121. Practising certificate
122. Replacement practising certificates
123. Return of practising certificate
PART 3.2--END OF REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL
124. When does registration end?
125. Failure to meet insurance requirement
126. Renewal notice for registration
127. Late payment of registration
128. Retrospective re-registration
PART 3.3--MAINTAINING COMPETENCE AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
129. Obligation to maintain competence and continue professional
130. Programs for maintenance of competence
131. Standards for maintenance of competence
132. Use of information about continuing competence etc
CHAPTER 4--REQUIRED STANDARD OF PRACTICE
PART 4.1--REQUIRED STANDARD OF PRACTICE GENERALLY
133. Purpose of ch 4
134. Standards statements
135. Pattern of practice or particular acts
136. Endangering public
137. Lack of competence to practise etc
PART 4.2--SPECIFIC BREACHES OF THE REQUIRED STANDARD OF PRACTICE
138. Purpose of pt 4.2 etc
139. Breach of standards statements
140. Telling board about proceedings relating to health professional
141. Infection control and notifiable diseases
142. Substances that affect health professional's abilities
143. Controlled medicines and prohibited substances for patients
144. Inappropriate behaviour
145. Reporting other health professionals
146. Clinical records
147. Misrepresenting facts in certificates
148. Treatment by assistants
149. Misleading advertising
149A. Practising under allowed name
150. Behaviour that contravenes another law
CHAPTER 5--THE REGISTER
151. Register
152. Contents of register
153. Information in register to be accessible and extractable
154. Executive officer responsible for register
155. Access to register
156. Requests for changes of details in register
157. When board must not charge fees etc for register corrections
CHAPTER 5A--REVIEWABLE DECISIONS
157AA. Reviewable decisions—Act, s 47
157AB. Right of review and notice—Act, s 48 and s 49 (a)
CHAPTER 6--MISCELLANEOUS
157A. Inspection of incorporated documents
157B. Notification of certain incorporated documents
157C. Approved forms—health profession boards
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DICTIONARY
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