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Registration Standards

Under Section 38 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as in force in each state and territory, the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (the Board) must develop and recommend to Ministerial Council mandatory registration standards and any other standards relevant to the eligibility of individuals for registration in the profession.

The Board completed a review of its professional indemnity insurance, continuing professional development and recency of practice registration standards in 2019. The revised registration standards took effect on 1 December 2019 and are included in the table below. For more information about the revised standard please read the news item.

Document name PDF Accessible format Chinese Version

中文

 Date of effect
Continuing Professional Development Registration Standard effective 1 December 2019 PDF (79.1KB)  Word version 
(170 KB,DOCX)  		 PDF (139KB)  1 December 2019 
Criminal History Registration Standard PDF (249KB) Word version
(574KB,DOCX)		 PDF (164KB) 1 July 2015
English Language Skills Registration Standard

Additional resources about this standard are available on the AHPRA website.		 PDF (375KB) Word version
(577KB,DOCX)		 PDF (186KB) 1 July 2015
Limited Registration for Teaching or Research Registration Standard  PDF (184KB)  Word version 
(395 KB,DOCX) 		   9 October 2015 
Professional Indemnity Insurance Arrangements Registration Standard effective 1 December 2019  PDF
(80.8 KB) 		 Word version 
(172 KB,DOCX) 		 PDF (148KB)  1 December 2019 
Recency of Practice Registration Standard effective 1 December 2019 PDF
(79.3KB  		 Word version
(92.5 KB,DOCX) 		PDF (139KB)  1 December 2019 

Codes and Guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions can be found in the Codes and Guidelines section.

Ministerial Council directions and approvals

The following directions or approvals given by Ministerial Council to the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia are published in accordance with section 17(2) of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as in force in each state and territory (the National Law).

Document name PDF Document date
Ministerial Council approval letter for the following registration standards are published on the AHPRA website:
  • continuing professional development
  • recency of practice
  • professional indemnity insurance arrangements
N/A 30 June 2019
Approval of the following registration standards:
  • Continuing professional development registration standard
  • Criminal history registration standard
  • English language skills registration standard
  • Professional indemnity insurance arrangements registration standard
  • Recency of practice registration standard
  • Grandparenting registration standard: transitional arrangements for qualifications.
PDF
(81.7 KB)		 11 January 2012
Ministerial Council approval letters for the following registration standard is published on the AHPRA website.
  30 April 2015
Approval of the Limited registration for teaching or research standard  PDF (349KB) 
 		 7 September 2015 

A detailed consultation process supported the development of the Board’s registration standards.

Retired versions

Document name PDF Date of effect

Retired version: Continuing Professional Development Registration Standard

 PDF (290KB) 1 July 2012 - 30 November 2019
Retired version: Professional Indemnity Insurance Arrangements Registration Standard PDF (297KB) 1 July 2012 - 30 November 2019
Retired version: Recency of Practice Registration Standard PDF (294KB) 1 July 2012 - 30 November 2019
Retired version: Criminal History Registration Standard PDF (291KB) To 30 June 2015
Retired version: English Language Skills Registration Standard PDF (307KB) To 30 June 2015
Retired version: Grandparenting and General Registration Eligibility Registration Standard PDF (434KB) To 30 June 2015
 
 
Page reviewed 12/12/2019