New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 Procedure for considering applications

• (1) Each authority must promptly consider an application for an annual practising certificate that the Registrar submits to the authority.

  (2) If the authority proposes to decline an application for an annual practising certificate, or to include or vary conditions in the health practitioner's scope of practice, it must give the applicant—

  • (a) a notice containing enough particulars to inform the applicant clearly of the substance of the grounds on which the authority proposes to decline the application, or to include or vary any conditions; and

  • (b) a copy of any information on which the authority relies in proposing to decline the application, or to include or vary any conditions; and

  • (c) a reasonable opportunity to make written submissions and be heard, either personally or by his or her representative, in respect of the application.

  (3) Subsection (2)(b) is subject to section 154.

  Compare: 1995 No 95 s 53