New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8 Health practitioners must not practise outside scope of practice

• (1) Every health practitioner who practises the profession in respect of which he or she is registered must have a current practising certificate issued by the responsible authority.

  (2) No health practitioner may perform a health service that forms part of a scope of practice of the profession in respect of which he or she is registered unless he or she—

  • (a) is permitted to perform that service by his or her scope of practice; and

  • (b) performs that service in accordance with any conditions stated in his or her scope of practice.

  (3) Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (2) applies to a health practitioner who performs health services—

  • (a) in an emergency; or

  • (b) as part of a course of training or instruction; or

  • (c) in the course of an examination, assessment, or competence review required or ordered by the responsible authority.