112Referral to VCAT

112 Referral to VCAT

A panel must stop hearing a matter and require the Board to refer the matter to VCAT under section 211 if, at any time—

(a) the registered disability worker or disability student who is the subject of the hearing asks the panel for the matter to be referred to VCAT; or

(b) in the case of a registered disability worker who is the subject of the hearing—

(i) the panel reasonably believes that the evidence demonstrates that the registered disability worker may have behaved in a way that constitutes professional misconduct; or

(ii) the panel reasonably believes the evidence demonstrates the registered disability worker's or disability student's registration may have been improperly obtained because the registered disability worker or disability student, as the case may be, or someone else gave the Board information or a document that was false or misleading in a material particular.