REGISTRATION UNDER MUTUAL RECOGNITION

Under the provisions of Mutual Recognition Act 1992 and the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1996 a person who has a current authority to practice as a chiropractor in another jurisdiction of Australia or New Zealand is entitled to be registered to practice chiropractic in New South Wales. 

Mutual Recognition provides an additional and alternative avenue to the Chiropractors Act for obtaining registration.

Application procedures

An application for registration form may be downloaded at the bottom of this page.  The documentary requirements, which must accompany the application form, are outlined in the form.  A checklist is appended to assist applicants in complying with the Board’s requirements.

Upon lodgement of a completed application/notice the applicant is “deemed” to be registered in New South Wales and is entitled to practice in New South Wales from the date of lodgement (ss.20, 25 and 27, MRA).  The “deemed” registration automatically becomes a substantive (full) registration after one month (s.21(3), MRA), subject to:

o        the Board postponing or refusing substantive registration (ss.25 (1) & 26(3) & (6), MRA), or

o       the applicant’s deemed registration is cancelled or suspended or otherwise ceases in accordance with Part 3 of the Act (s.26)(1), MRA), or

o        the applicant ceases to be substantively registered in every state referred to in the application/notice(s. 26(4) MRA); or

o        the applicant requests the Board to cancel its deemed registration (s. 26(5) MRA).

The Board can postpone of refuse the grant of a substantive registration if the application/notice is not fully completed, if the statements in the application/notice are found to be materially false or misleading, if the circumstances of the applicant have materially changed since the application was lodged, or the Board decides that the occupation in which registration is sought is not an equivalent occupation (ss.22 and 23, MRA). 

The Board is prohibited from postponing the grant of substantive registration for longer than six months (s.22(6), MRA) and during that period the applicant remains registered as a “deemed” registration(s. 26(6)).

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