148Referral of notification to National Board or co-regulatory

148 Referral of notification to National Board or co-regulatory authority (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the National Agency must, as soon as practicable after receiving a notification about a registered health practitioner or a student, refer the notification to the National Board established for the practitioner’s or student’s health profession. (2) If the behaviour that is the basis for the ground for the notification occurred, or is reasonably believed to have occurred, in a co- regulatory jurisdiction, the National Agency— (a) must not deal with the notification; and (b) must, as soon as practicable after receiving the notification, refer the notification to the co-regulatory authority for the co- regulatory jurisdiction.

(3) If the behaviour that is the basis for the ground for the notification occurred, or is reasonably believed to have occurred, in more than one jurisdiction and one of the jurisdictions is a co-regulatory jurisdiction, the National Agency must— (a) if the registered health practitioner’s principal place of practice is in the co-regulatory jurisdiction, refer the notification under subsection (2); or (b) otherwise, refer the notification under subsection (1).