New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 139I

139I Notifications under section 130 [NSW]

(1) A notice under section 130 is taken to be a complaint both for the purposes of this Part and for the purposes of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 (including sections 96 and 98 of that Act).

(2) A National Board must, within 3 business days of receiving a notice under section 130 from a registered health practitioner or student to whom the following applies, provide the Council for the health profession in which the practitioner or student is registered with a copy of the notice--

(a) for a registered health practitioner--

(i) the relevant event the subject of the notice, or the matters to which the relevant event relates, occurred in or relates to New South Wales; or

(ii) the principal place of practice of the registered health practitioner is in New South Wales;

(b) for a student--the relevant event the subject of the notice, or the matters to which the relevant event relates, occurred in or relates to New South Wales.

(3) In this section--

"relevant event" has the same meaning as it has in section 130.