sec.90Health assessment for pest management licences

sec.90 Health assessment for pest management licences

This section applies in relation to an application for a pest management licence. The chief executive may ask the applicant to undergo an assessment (a health assessment ) by a medical practitioner of the applicant’s physical and mental health. The chief executive may decide a health assessment is necessary for considering an application for a pest management licence to work with fumigants in enclosed spaces. The chief executive must give the applicant a notice stating the following matters— the reason for requesting the health assessment; the name of a particular medical practitioner, or the qualifications of a medical practitioner, who may conduct the assessment; the reasonable day by which the assessment must be done. The assessment conducted by the medical practitioner must include a written report stating the practitioner’s findings about the applicant’s physical and mental health in relation to carrying out the type of regulated activity to which the application relates. If the applicant fails to give the written report to the chief executive by the day stated in the notice under subsection (3) (c) , without a reasonable excuse, the applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application. (sec.90-ssec.1) This section applies in relation to an application for a pest management licence. (sec.90-ssec.2) The chief executive may ask the applicant to undergo an assessment (a health assessment ) by a medical practitioner of the applicant’s physical and mental health. The chief executive may decide a health assessment is necessary for considering an application for a pest management licence to work with fumigants in enclosed spaces. (sec.90-ssec.3) The chief executive must give the applicant a notice stating the following matters— the reason for requesting the health assessment; the name of a particular medical practitioner, or the qualifications of a medical practitioner, who may conduct the assessment; the reasonable day by which the assessment must be done. (sec.90-ssec.4) The assessment conducted by the medical practitioner must include a written report stating the practitioner’s findings about the applicant’s physical and mental health in relation to carrying out the type of regulated activity to which the application relates. (sec.90-ssec.5) If the applicant fails to give the written report to the chief executive by the day stated in the notice under subsection (3) (c) , without a reasonable excuse, the applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application.

• (a) the reason for requesting the health assessment;
• (b) the name of a particular medical practitioner, or the qualifications of a medical practitioner, who may conduct the assessment;
• (c) the reasonable day by which the assessment must be done.