New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 152K

152K Review of conditions [NSW]

(1) A registered health practitioner or student who agrees to conditions being imposed on the practitioner's or student's registration, or to have the registration suspended, may by written notice to the Council ask--

(a) that the conditions be altered or removed; or

(b) that the suspension be terminated or shortened.

(2) On receipt of the request, the Council must require an Impaired Registrants Panel to review the matter and give a written report to the Council on the results of its review.

(3) If the Panel recommends that the Council refuse to alter or remove any of the conditions, or refuse to terminate or shorten the suspension, the Council may do so.

(4) The Council must give the health practitioner or student written notice of its decision.

(5) The Council may specify in the notice a period in which a further request by the practitioner or student under this section is not permitted.

(6) The Council may refuse a request that the conditions be altered or removed, or that the suspension be terminated or shortened, if it is made during that period.