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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 8 Hansard (9 August) . . Page.. 2969 ..
Psychologists Board of the ACT
Established under: Psychologists Act 1994
Date established: 1994
Terms of operation: Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Act 1981
Reports to:
Minister for Health, Housing and Community ServicesTerms of Reference
To administer the Psychologists Act 1994 and:register suitably qualified persons to practise as psychologists in the ACT;
discipline registered psychologists, after due inquiry on specific grounds through suspension/cancellation of registration, cautioning or reprimanding the person, ordering the psychologist to seek or undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or coqnselling, or imposing on the psychologist's registration such conditions relating to the practise of psychology, requiring the psychologist to complete specified educational courses or order that the psychologists seek and follow advice, in relation to his or her practise , from persons specified by the Board as it considers appropriate;
consider of complaints against registered psychologists;
general monitoring of the conduct of the profession in the ACT.
The Board comprises a Chairperson and five persons who are eligible for registration under the Act (professional members) and a community representative. The community representative is not entitled to be registered under any of the health registration Acts and should not be engaged in a profession or business which employs psychological practices. All 7 members are appointed by the Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services in accordance with the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Act 1981.
Membership
Member Position Remuneration
(include title) (eg Chair, Member)
Professor Donald Byrne Chair Nil
Col. Wallace Hall Deputy Chair Nil
Dr Consuelo Barreda-Hanson Member Nil
Ms Adele Hamilton Member Nil
Mr Marshall O'Brien Member Nil
Mr Thomas Sutton Member Nil
Dr Maura O'Brien Member Nil
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