Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

116 Conditions for designating health services as health profession
  • Before making a recommendation under section 115(1), the Minister must, after consultation with any organisation that, in the Minister's opinion, has an interest in the recommendation, be satisfied of the following matters:

    • (a) either—

      • (i) that the provision of the health services concerned poses a risk of harm to the public; or

      • (ii) that it is otherwise in the public interest that the provision of health services be regulated as a profession under this Act:

    • (b) that providers of the health services concerned are generally agreed on—

      • (i) the qualifications for any class or classes of providers of those health services; and

      • (ii) the standards that any class or classes of providers of those health services are expected to meet; and

      • (iii) the competencies for scopes of practice for those health services.