New Zealand Legislation: Acts

15 Requirements for registration of practitioners

• (1) The authority appointed in respect of a health profession may register an applicant as a health practitioner permitted to practise within a scope of practice if the applicant—

  • (a) is fit for registration in accordance with section 16; and

  • (b) has the qualifications that are prescribed, under section 12, for that scope of practice; and

  • (c) is competent to practise within that scope of practice.

  (2) An authority may, for the purposes of subsection (1)(b), treat any overseas qualification as a prescribed qualification if, in the opinion of the authority, that qualification is equivalent to, or as satisfactory as, a prescribed qualification.

  (3) An authority may vary a prescribed qualification in any case where the authority—

  • (a) proposes to limit the health services that the applicant will be permitted to perform; and

  • (b) is satisfied that the varied qualification is adequate—

    • (i) for the performance of those health services; and

    • (ii) for the protection of the public.