Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

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Financial matters and annual report

130 Authorities may prescribe fees

(1)

Each authority may from time to time, by notice, prescribe the fees payable in respect of the following matters:

(a)

an application for registration with the authority:

(b)

an addition or alteration to the register maintained by the authority:

(c)

the issue of a practising certificate:

(d)

the issue of any other certificate, or a copy of any certificate:

(e)

the supply of a copy of any entry in the register:

(f)

inspection of the register, or of any other documents kept by the authority that are open for inspection:

(g)

the supply to any health practitioner of any documents, other than certificates of registration, required by him or her for the purpose of seeking registration overseas:

(h)

examinations set or approved by the authority:

(i)

any other matter that relates to anything the authority is required to do in order to carry out its functions.

(2)

Different fees may be prescribed under this section for different classes of health practitioner.

(3)

Any notice prescribing any fee under this section may exempt any class or classes of person from liability to pay any such fee, and may provide for the waiver or refund of any such fee.

(4)

A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Compare: 1995 No 95 s 126

Legislation Act 2019 requirements for secondary legislation made under this section
PublicationThe maker must publish it in the Gazette and ensure that an up-to-date version of it is available: LA19 ss 73, 74(1)(a), Sch 1 cl 14
• on the Internet
• for inspection free of charge at the office of the authority during business hours
• for sale at a reasonable price at the office of the authority during business hours
PresentationThe Minister must present it to the House of RepresentativesLA19 s 114, Sch 1 cl 32(1)(a)
DisallowanceIt may be disallowed by the House of Representatives LA19 ss 115, 116
This note is not part of the Act.

Section 130(1): amended, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).

Section 130(4): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).