Teachers Registration and Standards Act 2004

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to answer questions and to be present or attend a specified place and time for that purpose;

to provide information or to produce material for inspection.

A person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.

Without limiting subsection (1) or any other provision of this Act, the Registrar, or a person authorised by the Registrar, may, if the Registrar has reasonable grounds to suspect that a teacher's capacity to teach is seriously impaired by an illness or disability affecting the teacher's behaviour or competence as a teacher, require the teacher to—

submit to a medical examination by a medical practitioner selected by the teacher from a panel of medical practitioners nominated by the

provide, or authorise the medical practitioner to provide, a report on the results of the medical examination to the Registrar.

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A suspension under this section has effect—

until the fulfilment of specified conditions or until further order of the

if the teacher's registration is cancelled under section 35(2)—until that cancellation has effect, whichever occurs first.

To avoid doubt, a suspension of a teacher's registration under this section has effect whether or not an appeal has, or is to be, instituted against the decision to suspend the registration of the teacher.

This section does not limit or affect a power of investigation or inquiry that exists apart from this section.