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(1) When an application for an annual practising certificate has been referred to the authority concerned by the Registrar, the authority must not decide that the certificate should be issued unless it is satisfied that the applicant meets the required standard of competence.
(2) In order to satisfy the criterion stated in subsection (1), the authority may include new conditions in the applicant's scope of practice or may vary existing conditions in that scope of practice.
(3) The authority, after considering any application for an annual practising certificate, may decide that the applicant should be issued with an annual practising certificate, either with changes, determined under subsection (2), to the applicant's scope of practice or without such changes.
(4) As soon as practicable after the authority makes a decision under subsection (3), the Registrar must—
(a) issue the certificate to the applicant; and
(b) notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for any conditions included in the health practitioner's scope of practice; and
(c) make any necessary amendments to the registration of the health practitioner's scope of practice.
(5) The authority, after considering an application for an annual practising certificate, may decide that—
(a) the applicant should not be issued with an annual practising certificate until the applicant has fulfilled 1 or more conditions determined by the authority; or
(b) the applicant should not be issued with an annual practising certificate.
(6) As soon as practicable after the authority makes a decision under subsection (5), the Registrar must notify the applicant in writing of the decision and the reasons for it.
(7) If the authority declines an application for an annual practising certificate under subsection (5)(a), it may, nevertheless, authorise the issue of an interim practising certificate to the applicant under section 31, pending fulfilment of the conditions imposed.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 54