Regulations must provide for National Boards
31 Regulations must provide for National Boards
The regulations must provide for a National Health Practitioner Board for each health profession.
The regulations may—
continue an existing Board for a health profession; or
establish a Board for a health profession or for 2 or more health professions;
or
dissolve a Board for a health profession (the dissolved
Board) if another Board is established for that health profession (the
replacement
Board).
The regulations may provide for anything for which it is necessary or convenient to make provision to allow, facilitate or provide for the following—
the continuation, establishment or dissolution of a Board under subsection (2);
the completion of a matter started by the existing Board before the commencement;
the effect of anything done by an existing Board before the commencement;
the transfer of matters from a dissolved Board to a replacement Board.
Before a regulation is made under subsection (2)(b) or (c), the
Ministers comprising the Ministerial Council must undertake public consultation on the proposed regulation.
However, failure to comply with subsection (4) does not affect the validity of the regulation.
In this section—
existing
Board means a National Health Practitioner Board in existence immediately before the commencement.
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