New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Applications for registration of health practitioners and authorisations of scopes of practice

• (1) This section applies to every application by—

  • (a) a person who applies to be registered as a health practitioner permitted to practise within a scope of practice; and

  • (b) every health practitioner who applies for a change in the authorisation of his or her existing scope of practice.

  (2) Every application to which this section applies must be made to the responsible authority, and must—

  • (a) be made in a form, and contain the information, that is determined by the authority; and

  • (b) be accompanied by—

    • (i) an indication of the scope of practice within which the applicant proposes to practise, or, as the case requires, an indication of the changes the applicant wishes to have made to his or her existing scope of practice; and

    • (ii) any evidence in support of the application that is required by the authority; and

    • (iii) the fee (if any) set by the authority.

  (3) On receipt by the Registrar of a duly completed application made in accordance with this section, the Registrar must promptly—

  • (a) ascertain whether the Registrar is able to consider and determine the application under a delegation given to the Registrar under clause 17 of Schedule 3; or

  • (b) if that is not the case, submit the application to the authority for its consideration.

  (4) If any fine imposed on a health practitioner under section 101, or any costs payable under an order made under that section, or any costs or expenses payable under an order made under section 92(4), remains unpaid, the Registrar may decline to do any act, or to permit any act to be done, in relation to the registration of that health practitioner until the fine or costs or expenses are paid.

  (5) If, in accordance with subsection (4), the Registrar declines to do any act, or to permit any act to be done, in relation to the registration of a health practitioner, that health practitioner may, by application in writing made to the authority, request the authority to review the Registrar's decision, and, on any such application,—

  • (a) the authority must, as soon as practicable, review the Registrar's decision, and must either confirm or revoke that decision; and

  • (b) the Registrar's decision has effect, or ceases to have effect, accordingly.

  (6) Subsection (4) overrides subsection (3).