New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 226

226 National Board may decide not to include or to remove certain information in register

(1) A National Board may decide that a condition imposed on a registered health practitioner's registration, or the details of an undertaking accepted from a registered health practitioner, because the practitioner has an impairment is not to be recorded in a National Register or Specialists Register in which the practitioner's name is included if--

(a) it is necessary to protect the practitioner's privacy; and

(b) there is no overriding public interest for the condition or the details of the undertaking to be recorded.

(2) A National Board may decide that information relating to a registered health practitioner is not to be recorded in a National Register or Specialists Register in which the practitioner's name is included if--

(a) the practitioner asks the Board not to include the information in the register; and

(b) the Board reasonably believes the inclusion of the information in the register would present a serious risk to the health or safety of--

(i) the practitioner; or

(ii) a member of the practitioner's family or an associate of the practitioner.

(2A) A National Board may decide to record information, which it previously excluded under subsection (2), in a National Register or Specialists Register if the Board reasonably believes the circumstances on which the previous exclusion was based have changed.

(3) A National Board may decide to remove information that a registered health practitioner has been reprimanded from a National Register or Specialists Register in which the practitioner's name is included if it considers it is no longer necessary or appropriate for the information to be recorded on the Register.

(4) In this section--

"associate" , of a registered health practitioner, includes a friend, neighbour or colleague of the practitioner.

"family" , of a registered health practitioner, includes--

(a) persons related to the practitioner by blood, marriage or adoption, for example, the practitioner's spouse, children and parents; and

(b) persons in a de facto relationship with the practitioner; and

(c) persons connected to the practitioner through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship ties.