139INotifications under section 130 [NSW]

139I Notifications under section 130 [NSW]

139I Notifications under section 130 [NSW]

(1) A notice under section 130 is taken to be a complaint both for the purposes of this Part and for the purposes of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 (including sections 96 and 98 of that Act).

(2) A National Board must, within 3 business days of receiving a notice under section 130 from a registered health practitioner or student to whom the following applies, provide the Council for the health profession in which the practitioner or student is registered with a copy of the notice—

(a) for a registered health practitioner—

(i) the relevant event the subject of the notice, or the matters to which the relevant event relates, occurred in or relates to New South Wales; or

(ii) the principal place of practice of the registered health practitioner is in New South Wales;

(b) for a student—the relevant event the subject of the notice, or the matters to which the relevant event relates, occurred in or relates to New South Wales.

(3) In this section—

relevant event has the same meaning as it has in section 130.

s 139I: Ins 2016 No 4, Sch 1 [4]. Am 2020 No 32, Sch 2[4].