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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.87Health assessment
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### sec.87 Health assessment
This section applies if a relevant authority believes a subject person currently is unable to satisfactorily carry out the inherent requirements of practice as an Australian legal practitioner.
The relevant authority may require the subject person to undergo a health assessment by a person appointed by the relevant authority.
If the relevant authority decides to require the health assessment, the authority must give the subject person an information notice about the decision to require the assessment that includes—
the name and qualifications of the person appointed by the authority to conduct the assessment; and
a stated date, and a stated time and place, for the assessment that must be reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the subject person as known to the relevant authority.
The stated date must be no sooner than 28 days after the information notice is given to the subject person unless the person and the relevant authority agree, in writing, to an earlier date.
The subject person may apply, as provided under the QCAT Act , to the tribunal for a review of the decision.
s 87 amd 2009 No. 24 s 1492
(sec.87-ssec.1) This section applies if a relevant authority believes a subject person currently is unable to satisfactorily carry out the inherent requirements of practice as an Australian legal practitioner.
(sec.87-ssec.2) The relevant authority may require the subject person to undergo a health assessment by a person appointed by the relevant authority.
(sec.87-ssec.3) If the relevant authority decides to require the health assessment, the authority must give the subject person an information notice about the decision to require the assessment that includes— the name and qualifications of the person appointed by the authority to conduct the assessment; and a stated date, and a stated time and place, for the assessment that must be reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the subject person as known to the relevant authority.
(sec.87-ssec.4) The stated date must be no sooner than 28 days after the information notice is given to the subject person unless the person and the relevant authority agree, in writing, to an earlier date.
(sec.87-ssec.5) The subject person may apply, as provided under the QCAT Act , to the tribunal for a review of the decision.
- (a) the name and qualifications of the person appointed by the authority to conduct the assessment; and
- (b) a stated date, and a stated time and place, for the assessment that must be reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the subject person as known to the relevant authority.