Section 322A — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Definition of health practitioner may be limited

322A Definition of health practitioner may be limited (1) The Minister may, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette , declare that a person is not a health practitioner of a particular health profession for any purposes of this Act that are specified in the notice if— (a) the person is a member of a class described in the notice; and (b) the person's registration or deemed registration as a practitioner of that health profession under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 is related to the person's membership of that class. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) , a class of persons may be described in any way the Minister thinks fit, including, without limitation, in any 1 or more of the following ways: (a) by reference to the scopes of practice of the persons, including, without limitation, to any limitations, restrictions, or conditions in the scopes of practice: (b) by reference to the qualifications of the persons: (c) by reference to the fact that the persons are not permitted to perform services of a stated kind under their scopes of practice: (d) by reference to the fact that the persons lack qualifications of a stated kind. (3) The Minister may not give a notice in the Gazette under this section without first consulting any persons or organisations that the Minister considers appropriate, having regard to the subject matter of the proposed notice. (4) A notice in the Gazette under this section is a regulation for the purposes of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989 , but is not a regulation for the purposes of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 . Section 322A was inserted, as from 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48). See sections 178 to 227 of that Act as to the transitional provisions.