Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ACT 2004 (NO. 38 OF 2004) - SECT 123

    (1)     As soon as practicable after finishing a standards inquiry about a health professional, the professional standards panel must prepare a written report (the "standards inquiry report") that includes the following:

        (a)     if the standards inquiry found that the health professional is contravening, or has contravened, the required standard of practice—how the standard is being, or was, contravened;

        (b)     if the standards inquiry found that the health professional does not satisfy the suitability to practise requirements—which suitability to practise requirement is not satisfied;

        (c)     whether there is, or was, a risk to the public from the health professional's practise and, if there is or was, what the risk is or was;

        (d)     the action taken by the panel and reasons for the action.

    (2)     Within 28 days after the end of the standards inquiry, the professional standards panel must give the standards inquiry report to—

        (a)     the health professional; and

        (b)     the health profession board that established the panel; and

        (c)     the commissioner.

    (3)     The professional standards panel may also give the standards inquiry report to anyone else.

    (4)     However, the professional standards panel may omit material from a copy of the standards inquiry report given to a person under subsection (3) if the panel considers it appropriate to do so to protect someone's confidentiality.