146BGeneral powers to caution, reprimand, counsel etc [NSW]

146B General powers to caution, reprimand, counsel etc [NSW]

146B General powers to caution, reprimand, counsel etc [NSW]

(1) A Committee may do one or more of the following in relation to a relevant health practitioner the subject of a complaint referred to it—

(a) caution or reprimand the practitioner;

(b) impose the conditions it considers appropriate on the practitioner’s registration;

(c) order that the practitioner seek and undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or counselling (including, but not limited to, psychological counselling);

(d) order that the practitioner complete an educational course specified by the Committee;

(e) order that the practitioner report on the practitioner’s practice at the times, in the way and to the persons specified by the Committee;

(f) order that the practitioner seek and take advice, in relation to the management of the practitioner’s practice, from the persons specified by the Committee.

(2) If the relevant health practitioner is not registered, a direction may still be given under this section but has effect only so as to require the conditions concerned to be imposed when the health practitioner is registered.

(3) If a Committee acting under this section makes an order or directs that any condition be imposed on a health practitioner’s registration, the Committee may order that a contravention of the order or condition will result in the health practitioner’s registration in the health profession being cancelled.

(4) The order or condition concerned is then a critical compliance order or condition.

s 146B: Am 2012 No 39, Sch 1.1 [8]; 2016 No 4, Sch 1 [7].