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Requirement

Mandatory notification by practitioners of another practitioner's notifiable conduct or a student's impairment

Health Practitioner Regulation National Law s 141, stated plainly and cited to the edition held, with the evidence an auditor or the regulator asks for, the common gaps, and a free worksheet to fill in.

Clause

National Law s 141

Regulator

Ahpra and the National Boards

Edition held

The National Law as the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld), Act No 45 of 2009, Queensland in-force version current as at 10 April 2026 (the host jurisdiction's text, which the other states and territories apply by their own Acts; New South Wales applies its own version with its own complaints scheme)

Checked current

6 October 2026, our build record of the held copy: no later reprint listed on 30 September 2026

Who it applies to

Registered occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists. Speech pathology is not registered under the National Law.

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Not the treating or employer duty

This page is the duty of a practitioner who forms the belief in the course of practising, not while treating the other practitioner. A treating practitioner reads s 141A and s 141B; an employer reads s 142.

s 141Mandatory notification by practitioners of another practitioner's notifiable conduct or a student's impairmentsource
Requirement, our statement of the clause

A registered practitioner who, in the course of practising, forms a reasonable belief that another registered practitioner has engaged in notifiable conduct (s 140), or that a student has an impairment that may place the public at substantial risk of harm in clinical training, notifies Ahpra as soon as practicable. The duty does not arise where the belief is formed while providing a health service to that practitioner or student (ss 141A to 141C then apply), where formed as a professional indemnity insurer's employee from a disclosure in legal proceedings or advice, while advising for legal proceedings, as the person's lawyer, as a member of a statutory quality assurance body barred from disclosing, or where the practitioner knows or reasonably believes Ahpra already knows. Breach is not an offence but grounds for action. In Queensland the notification goes to the Health Ombudsman; in NSW read the NSW Part 8.

Evidence that typically shows this
  • Organisational procedure explaining the notifiable conduct thresholds and the as-soon-as-practicable timing
  • Record of each notification made to Ahpra (or the Health Ombudsman in Queensland) with date, reference and the belief it rested on
  • Staff training record on mandatory notification duties
Common gap to check
  • Notification delayed while an internal investigation runs
  • Staff believe reporting to their manager discharges their personal duty
  • Threshold misread, so risks of harm from significant departures from standards are not reported
Worksheet: what your practice holds, and where
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Completing this worksheet records what your practice holds and where. It does not make a practice compliant or ready for audit, and it is not legal advice.

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