Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia)

If an education provider arranges clinical training in a health profession for a person who is not enrolled in an approved program of study for the profession, the education provider must give the National Board established for the profession written notice about the arrangement.

Subsection (1) does not apply if the person is a registered health practitioner who is registered in the health profession in which the clinical training is being undertaken.

A notice under subsection (1) must include —

the particulars of the person undertaking the clinical training, and

particulars of the arrangement for the person to undertake the clinical training.

On receipt of a notice under subsection (1) —

the National Board may register the persons as students in the health profession by entering the persons’ particulars in the student register kept by the Board; or

the National Board may —

by written notice given to each person, require the person to complete an application for registration as a student in the form approved by the National Board; and

on receipt of the person’s application form, register the person as a student in the health profession by entering the person’s particulars in the student register kept by the Board.

As soon as practicable after registering a person as a student under subsection (4), a National Board must give written notice of the registration to the education provider that provided the student’s particulars to the Board.

The National Board must not require a person to pay a fee for registration as a student.

A student’s period of registration under this section —

starts when the student is registered under subsection (4); and

expires at the end of the day on which the person completes, or otherwise ceases to undertake, the period of clinical training.