Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If--
(a) a person applies to the council, in the form approved by the council, for temporary registration as a registered nurse; and
(b) the application is accompanied by--
(i) the prescribed application fee; and
(ii) the annual licence certificate fee; and
(c) the council is satisfied that--
(i) the person is the holder of a degree, diploma or certificate of nursing (recognised by the council and obtained after due examination) conferred by an institution recognised in the place where it is situated, and by the council, as authorised to confer the degree, diploma or certificate; and
(ii) the person has come to Queensland--
(A) at the request of a hospital, college, school of nursing or other teaching institution in Queensland, of the State or a State authority, or of an association recognised by the council as representative of nurses, for the purpose of teaching, lecturing, giving clinical demonstrations or engaging in research work; or
(B) undertaking postgraduate study in nursing; and
(iii) the person is a suitable person to be temporarily registered as a registered nurse;
the council may grant the person temporary registration as a registered nurse.
(1A) The approved form may require the disclosure of the person's criminal history.
(1B) If the approved form requires the disclosure of the person's criminal history, the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 does not apply to the disclosure.
(2) Temporary registration may be subject to such conditions (including conditions of practice) as the council determines.
(3) Temporary registration may be granted or renewed for such period (not longer than 1 year) as the council determines.
(4) A person who is temporarily registered is taken to be registered under this Act as a registered nurse.
(5) The council may cancel the temporary registration of a person.
(6) If the council cancels the temporary registration of a person, the council must immediately--
(a) advise the person of the cancellation; and
(b) give the person written reasons for the cancellation; and
(c) if the temporary registration has not been renewed--refund an appropriate part of the annual licence certificate fee that accompanied the relevant application.
(7) A person registered under this section must notify the executive officer as soon as possible after the person ceases to engage in the activities mentioned in subsection (1)(c)(ii) for which the registration was granted.
Maximum penalty--5 penalty units.
(8) The executive officer must cancel the person's temporary registration on receipt of the notice.