270Specialist registration

270 Specialist registration

270 Specialist registration

(1) This section applies if—

(a) immediately before the participation day for a participating jurisdiction, a person was a specialist health practitioner in a specialty in a health profession under the law of that jurisdiction; and

(b) from the participation day—

(i) the specialty is a recognised specialty in the health profession under this Law; or

(ii) a recognised specialty in the health profession under this Law includes, or is equivalent to, the specialty.

(2) From the participation day, the person is taken to hold specialist registration in the recognised specialty in the health profession under this Law.

(3) In this section—

corresponding purpose means a purpose that is equivalent to, or substantially equivalent to, a purpose for which limited registration may be granted under this Law.

specialist health practitioner, in a specialty in a health profession, means a person who held specialist registration in, or was endorsed or otherwise authorised to practise, the specialty in the health profession but does not include a person who held registration to practise the profession only for a corresponding purpose.