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Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009
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### sec.258 Service agreement
This section applies if, immediately before the participation day for a participating jurisdiction—
a local registration authority in that jurisdiction exercised functions in relation to related health professionals; or
a local registration authority in that jurisdiction was a party to a service agreement for an entity to provide administrative or operational support to the authority and the entity also provided support under a service agreement to an authority that registers related health professionals.
From the participation day for the participating jurisdiction, the National Agency may enter into an agreement with the authority that is responsible for registering the related health professionals to provide services to the authority.
In this section—
related health professionals means persons who practise a profession providing health services that is not a health profession under this Law.
(sec.258-ssec.1) This section applies if, immediately before the participation day for a participating jurisdiction— a local registration authority in that jurisdiction exercised functions in relation to related health professionals; or a local registration authority in that jurisdiction was a party to a service agreement for an entity to provide administrative or operational support to the authority and the entity also provided support under a service agreement to an authority that registers related health professionals.
(sec.258-ssec.2) From the participation day for the participating jurisdiction, the National Agency may enter into an agreement with the authority that is responsible for registering the related health professionals to provide services to the authority.
(sec.258-ssec.3) In this section— related health professionals means persons who practise a profession providing health services that is not a health profession under this Law.
- (a) a local registration authority in that jurisdiction exercised functions in relation to related health professionals; or
- (b) a local registration authority in that jurisdiction was a party to a service agreement for an entity to provide administrative or operational support to the authority and the entity also provided support under a service agreement to an authority that registers related health professionals.