Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AMENDMENT REGULATION 2007 (NO 1) (NO 1 OF 2007) - REG 6

substitute

112     Application for registration—Act, s 37 (5) (a)

    (1)     An application by a person for registration as a health professional must contain the following:

        (a)     the person's name;

        (b)     the name used by the person, or intended to be used by the person, when practising the profession if different from the person's name;

        (c)     if the person has previously practised the profession—any other name used by the person when practising the profession;

        (d)     the person's business address, or intended business address;

        (e)     the person's postal address;

        (f)     if the person is an individual—each of the following:

              (i)     the person's date of birth;

              (ii)     a recent passport-size photograph of the applicant's head and shoulders, signed by a person before whom a statutory declaration may be made;

              (iii)     a statutory declaration stating that the applicant's right to practise as a health professional in the territory or anywhere else is not suspended and has not been cancelled;

              (iv)     evidence of the person's qualifications, including relevant training undertaken;

        (g)     if the person has been refused registration, or the person's registration has been cancelled—details of the refusal or cancellation;

        (h)     if the person has been refused registration (however described) as a health professional, or the person's registration as a health professional has been cancelled, under a corresponding law of a local jurisdiction—details of the refusal or cancellation;

              (i)     if the person is a corporation—the information required in paragraphs (d) to (h) for each director of the corporation;

        (j)     anything else prescribed in the schedule for the health profession.

Note 1     A fee may be determined under the Act, s 132 for this section.

Note 2     If a form is approved under s 157C for this provision, the form must be used.

Note 3     The Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Cwlth), s 8 requires a statutory declaration to be made before a prescribed person. The Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993 (Cwlth) prescribes people for that section.

Note 4     Section 115 requires the board to take into account a person's convictions when considering whether the person is competent to practise a health profession.

Note 5     A corporation may be allowed to apply to be registered as a health profession if a regulation allows a corporation to be registered in the health profession—see Act, s 37 (2).

    (2)     If an applicant is currently registered (however described) in a local jurisdiction or outside Australia, the application must also include—

        (a)     the original, or a certified copy, of the applicant's current registration certificate (however described); and

        (b)     if required by the board—a statutory declaration to the effect that the applicant has asked the regulatory authority responsible for the registration of the health profession in the place where the applicant is registered for a certificate of standing about the applicant to be given to the board.

    (3)     Also, an individual applicant must personally provide to the board 100 points of evidence of identity as prescribed under the Financial Transaction Reports Regulations 1990 (Cwlth) for general verification.

Example

presentation of a combination of a passport or citizenship certificate or photographic licence (such as a drivers licence), with a social security card, employment ID, a letter from an employer, credit or debit card or Medicare card

Note     An example is part of the regulation, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).

    (4)     In this section:

"certificate of standing" about an individual applicant, given by a regulatory authority of a place, means a certificate stating—

        (a)     that the applicant is registered in the place; and

Note     Register , a person, includes enrol the person (see Act, dict).

        (b)     whether any condition or restriction applies to the applicant's registration; and

        (c)     if a condition or restriction applies to the registration—the condition or restriction; and

        (d)     whether any disciplinary action has been taken in relation to the applicant.