10Professional conduct or performance

10 Professional conduct or performance

10 Professional conduct or performance

(1) In considering a matter under an Act about a registered health practitioner’s professional conduct or performance, regard may be had to whether the practitioner—

(a) performs a termination on a person other than as authorised under section 5 or 6, or

(b) assists in the termination on a person other than as authorised under section 8, or

(c) contravenes section 9.

(2) The matters to which subsection (1) applies include matters arising in—

(a) a notification under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), or

(b) a complaint under the Health Care Complaints Act 1993.

(3) This Act does not limit any duty a registered health practitioner has to comply with professional standards or guidelines that apply to health practitioners.