Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia) Act 2010

If—

a matter is, immediately before the participation day for this jurisdiction, the subject of an investigation or other form of consideration by a prescribed body (or the Registrar of a prescribed body), in circumstances where no formal complaint has been laid; and

the matter is of a nature that it could be the subject of a notification under the Health

Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia), that matter will, from the participation day, be taken to be the subject of a notification under Part 8 of the Health

Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia).

All matters falling within the ambit of subclause (1) are to be taken to be within the ambit of section 288 of the Health

Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia) and clause 289 of that Law will have no application to those matters.

A national body may, in connection with any matter before the national body by virtue of the operation of this Division or Division 13 of Part 12 of the Health

Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia)—

adopt, as in its discretion it considers proper, any step, determination, decision, finding or other act of a prescribed body; and

as in its discretion it considers proper—

initiate any investigation; or

take over or assume any investigation being undertaken by, or on behalf of, a prescribed body;

receive any report as a result of any investigation (including an investigation initiated by a prescribed body), and take any action on account of the results of any such investigation;

and

dispense with any step or requirement that might otherwise need to be taken or apply under the Health

Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia).