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32A Staff

(1) There may be employed under Part 3 of the Public Administration Act 2004 any persons who are necessary to assist the Commissioner or the Commission in exercising a power or performing a duty or function under this or any other Act.

(2) The Commissioner may engage a person with suitable qualifications or experience to assist the Commissioner or Commission in the exercise of a power or the performance of a duty or function under this or any other Act.

Part 3—Complaints—Preliminary matters

Division 1—Making a complaint

33 Complaints about disability workers and disability students

(1) A person may make a complaint to the Commission or the Board about a disability worker (whether or not the disability worker is registered) concerning the professional conduct of the disability worker, including and not limited to the following—

(a) the standard of the disability services provided by the disability worker in the course of practising as a disability worker;

(b) the knowledge, skill or judgement possessed by the disability worker;

(c) the disability worker's suitability to hold registration;

(d) the disability worker's capacity to practise in a safe manner;

(e) an alleged contravention of this Act or an approved code of conduct;

(f) matters about which a notification must be made.

(2) A person may make a complaint to the Commission or the Board about a disability student on one or more of the following grounds—

(a) the disability student has, or may have, an impairment that detrimentally affects the disability student's capacity to undertake supervised practice in a safe manner;

(b) the disability student has, or may have, contravened a condition of the disability student's registration or an undertaking given by the disability student to the Board.