21Postponement of registration

21 Postponement of registration (1) A local registration authority may postpone the grant of registration, if— (a) any of the statements or information in the notice as required by section 18 are materially false or misleading; (b) any document or information as required by section 18 (3) has not been provided or is materially false or misleading; (c) the circumstances of the person lodging the notice have materially changed since the date of the notice or the date it was lodged; or (d) the authority decides that the occupation in which registration is sought is not an equivalent occupation. (2) If the grant of registration has been postponed, the local registration authority may in due course grant or refuse the registration.

Schedule 1 Part 3 Occupations Clause 22 page 22 Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 Effective: 01/12/15 R4 01/12/15 Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au (3) The local registration authority may not postpone the grant of registration for longer than a period of 6 months, and the person is entitled to registration immediately, at the end of that period, unless registration was refused at or before the end of that period. (4) Nothing in subsection (3) prevents earlier registration from being granted on a review by the Australian Tribunal.