ClinicTrace Australia

Legislation and guidance register for New South Wales

New South WalesQueensland

Every source a cosmetic or aesthetic clinic in New South Wales is read against, in one place: the Acts and regulations, the regulators’ own guidance, the material a government department has published about how it reads a provision, and the standards the professions publish.

Each entry names the publisher, says how binding the source is, and carries the version that publisher states and the date the source was last read. Whether a source applies to a particular clinic, and what it means for that clinic, is a question for the clinic and its own advisers. Nothing here is legal advice.

133 sources across 15 categories. Last read 7 October 2026. Filter by what the clinic does, or search by an Act, a regulator, a treatment or a year. Every change recorded here is also in the changes feed (RSS).

What does the clinic do?

133 sources

How binding each source is

Legislation
An Act, a regulation, or an instrument made under one. It creates obligations directly. Every other grade takes its weight from legislation or from the body that publishes it.
Registration standard
A standard a National Board develops and the Ministerial Council approves under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (sections 12 and 38). The National Law requires registered practitioners to meet some of them, such as continuing professional development (section 128) and professional indemnity insurance (section 129). A breach is not an offence, and it can lead to action on the practitioner's registration.
Board code or guideline
A code or guideline a National Board approves under section 39 of the National Law. Section 41 allows it to be used in proceedings against a registered practitioner to show what appropriate professional conduct or practice is. It is not legislation.
Regulator guidance
A regulator's published account of how it reads and applies the law it administers. It carries weight with that regulator and it is not the law itself.
A department's reading of the legislation
A government department's published interpretation. It sets out what the department thinks a provision means, and it is not the provision.
Professional standard
A standard, framework or guideline that a Board, a professional body or a government agency publishes about how practice is carried out. Its weight comes from the body that publishes it, unless legislation gives it an effect.

A source is listed at one grade only. Where a department has published its reading of an Act, the Act and the reading are listed separately and the Act is listed first. Stoneglow Digital fetches every source in this register once a week and a person reads any change before it is recorded here. Where a publisher refuses an automated request, or a quote sits in a PDF, the weekly check records it as unread rather than unchanged, and it is checked by hand.

Health practitioner regulation

11 sources

Registration standards, codes and frameworks are published by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, guidelines for medical practitioners by the Medical Board of Australia, and the guidelines for performing non-surgical cosmetic procedures by Ahpra. New South Wales applies the National Law with its own Part 8, under which a complaint about a registered practitioner is dealt with by the Health Care Complaints Commission and the New South Wales professional council. The New South Wales version is listed at the grade of an Act.

  1. Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), section 133 (advertising of regulated health services)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 10 April 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The National Law as it applies in New South Wales, published by the NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office as the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) No 86a. Section 133, on advertising a regulated health service, is worded here exactly as in the Queensland version, so the advertising restrictions read the same way for a clinic on either side of the border. The NSW publication is the one a New South Wales clinic is read against.

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  2. Registration standard: Continuing professional development

    Registration standard. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    In effect from 1 June 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  3. Registration standard: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements

    Registration standard. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    In effect from 1 June 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  4. Registration standard: Recency of practice

    Registration standard. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    In effect from 1 June 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  5. Code of conduct for nurses

    Board code or guideline. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Code, Australia-wide.

    Version
    In effect from 1 March 2018
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    What changed

    • 1 March 2018In effect from 1 March 2018The Board's page states the code took effect on this date for all nurses in Australia.

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  6. Guidelines for registered health practitioners who perform non-surgical cosmetic procedures

    Board code or guideline. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    In effect from 2 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  7. Guidelines for registered medical practitioners who perform cosmetic surgery and procedures

    Board code or guideline. Medical Board of Australia. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Effective from 1 July 2023
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The Medical Board's guidelines for medical practitioners who perform cosmetic surgery and non-surgical cosmetic procedures, including prescribing Schedule 4 cosmetic injectables that another registered health practitioner administers: the consultation before prescribing, consent, and who remains responsible for the patient.

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  8. Guidelines: Telehealth consultations with patients

    Regulator guidance. Medical Board of Australia. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Effective 1 September 2023
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The Medical Board's guidelines on consulting with patients by video or telephone, including prescribing for a patient the practitioner has never consulted in real time. The cosmetic guidelines refer to them.

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  9. Managing financial or commercial conflicts of interest

    Regulator guidance. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Interim guidance, first published September 2026
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    Interim guidance from Ahpra and the National Boards on recognising, disclosing and managing financial or commercial conflicts of interest, based on the Boards' codes of conduct, while those codes are reviewed.

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  10. Decision-making framework for nursing and midwifery

    Professional standard. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  11. Registered nurse standards for practice

    Professional standard. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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Qualifications and training providers

5 sources

  1. National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025

    Legislation. Australian Skills Quality Authority. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    As made, commenced 1 July 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The instrument made under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 that sets what a registered training organisation must do about issuing AQF certification documentation, keeping its records, and what a qualification certificate must show. It binds training organisations, not clinics.

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  2. National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Outcome Standards for Registered Training Organisations) Instrument 2025

    Legislation. Australian Skills Quality Authority. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The instrument made under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 that sets the outcomes a registered training organisation must deliver in training and assessment. It also defines an AQF qualification and the training products the instrument covers.

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  3. Australian Qualifications Framework: certification for individuals

    Regulator guidance. Australian Qualifications Framework. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Where an individual can have a qualification verified, or get a copy of it if the training provider has closed. It names the national register of training organisations and the regulator that holds the records for providers outside Victoria and Western Australia.

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  4. Australian Qualifications Framework: qualification types and levels

    Regulator guidance. Australian Qualifications Framework. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    AQF Second Edition January 2013
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The national framework that places each Australian qualification type at one of ten levels. A certificate, diploma or degree a practitioner holds sits at the level the framework gives that qualification type.

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  5. Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2025: about the Standards

    Regulator guidance. Australian Skills Quality Authority. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 22 April 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    ASQA's description of the 2025 Standards for registered training organisations: the Outcome Standards, the Compliance Standards and the Credential Policy, and the Act they are enabled by.

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Medicines and poisons

14 sources

NSW Health's pages on medicines are listed as a regulator's guidance or as a department's reading of the legislation, never as law. The Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 and the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 commence on 5 November 2026 and replace the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 and the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008. Both sets are listed.

  1. Commencement Proclamation under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 (2026 No 322)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Legislative instrument, New South Wales.

    Version
    Published 3 July 2026 (2026 No 322)
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The proclamation that fixes 5 November 2026 as the day the remaining provisions of the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 commence, apart from nine listed items of Schedule 5. It is the instrument behind the 5 November 2026 date for the new New South Wales medicines framework.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026Commencement dayThe proclamation appoints 5 November 2026. It was signed on 1 July 2026 and published on 3 July 2026.
      • Commencement day for the remaining provisions of the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 is 5 November 2026
      • Schedule 5.3, 5.10, 5.14, 5.18, 5.23, 5.25, 5.27[1], 5.29 and 5.31 are excepted

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  2. Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Version of 3 November 2025 (includes 2025 No 51); remaining provisions commence 5 November 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The New South Wales Act that replaces the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 from 5 November 2026. It authorises and restricts the supply, prescription and administration of scheduled substances, and section 54 lets the regulations set requirements for scheduled substances used for cosmetic purposes. Read alongside the Regulation, which carries the detail.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026Remaining provisions commenceCommencement Proclamation (2026 No 322, published 3 July 2026) appoints 5 November 2026 for the remaining uncommenced provisions of the Act, apart from nine listed items of Schedule 5. The Act's long title states it repeals the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966. NSW Health states that from 5 November 2026 the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulation are replaced by this Act and the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026.
      • Replaces the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 (NSW) as the Act the Regulation is made under
      • Section 54 is the power for requirements about scheduled substances used for cosmetic purposes
      • Offence penalties are set in five tiers (section 117), replacing the penalty amounts in the 1966 Act
    • 3 November 2025Version of 3 November 2025Latest published version at 7 October 2026, taking in the Tobacco Legislation (Closure Orders) Amendment Act 2025 No 51.
    • 28 November 2022Assented toAssented to on 28 November 2022; the legislative history records commencement by proclamation.

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  3. Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Version of 3 July 2026 (as notified); commences 5 November 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The New South Wales Regulation made under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022, commencing 5 November 2026. Part 9 covers cosmetic use substances: directions, administration by nurses, storage, records and the duties of the business. Part 6 covers who may administer scheduled substances, and clause 185 sets how long required records are kept.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026CommencementSection 2 states the Regulation commences on 5 November 2026, the same day the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 commences in full. It replaces the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008 (NSW), whose Part 3A dealt with cosmetic substances.
      • Part 9 sets requirements for cosmetic use substances: botulinum toxins, calcium hydroxylapatite, collagen, deoxycholic acid, hyaluronic acid and its polymers, polyacrylamide, polycaprolactone and polylactic acid
      • Section 87(2) provides that, for Part 9, an authorised practitioner does not include a registered nurse with an endorsement
      • Section 88(1)(b) lets a nurse administer a cosmetic use substance lawfully supplied to the patient on a prescription issued to that patient
      • Section 89 requires a direction to be written and signed unless the prescriber is physically present, and requires an oral direction to be recorded in the patient's medical record and signed
      • Section 90(2) sets what an oral direction must include
      • Section 88(3)(c) and (d) set the nurse's administration record and require a copy to go to the prescriber and the responsible provider
      • Duties on the responsible provider, and on prescribers the provider employs, are in section 93
      • Category 1 and category 2 requirements are listed in section 94, with maximum penalties stated in the note to that section
      • Clause 185(3) sets a minimum of 2 years for keeping records the Regulation requires
    • 3 July 2026Version of 3 July 2026Notified on 3 July 2026. NSW Health records the Minister's approval of the Regulation on 3 July 2026.

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  4. Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Version of 10 June 2026 (includes 2026 No 15)
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The New South Wales Act in force until the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 takes its place on 5 November 2026. Division 1A of Part 3 covers substances used for cosmetic and other purposes, and section 17A covers nurses and midwives with an endorsement.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026Replaced by the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022NSW Health states that from 5 November 2026 the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulation will be replaced by the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 and the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026.
    • 10 June 2026Version of 10 June 2026Latest published version at 7 October 2026, including 2026 No 15.

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  5. Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Version of 5 June 2026 (includes 2026 (SI 240))
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The New South Wales Regulation in force until the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 takes its place on 5 November 2026. Part 3A covers restricted substances used for cosmetic and other purposes: directions to nurses, nurse administration records, storage and the duties of the responsible provider.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026Replaced by the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026NSW Health states that from 5 November 2026 the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulation will be replaced by the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 and the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026. Part 3A is succeeded by Part 9 of the 2026 Regulation.
    • 5 June 2026Version of 5 June 2026Latest published version at 7 October 2026, including 2026 (SI 240).

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  6. Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard, October 2026) Instrument 2026

    Legislation. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Poisons Standard October 2026, made 28 September 2026
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    F2026L01327. The Poisons Standard is remade several times a year, so the instrument in force changes name with it. It is the instrument that decides which schedule a substance sits in, which Queensland's own legislation then applies. Its Schedule 4 covers injectable tissue augmentation materials, and its Appendix A carves those materials out of the exemption that would otherwise cover a Class III medical device, so a filler can be both a device on the register of therapeutic goods and a scheduled medicine.

    What changed

    • 1 October 2026Poisons Standard October 2026 (F2026L01327)Made on 28 September 2026 and commencing on 1 October 2026; section 4(1) repeals the June 2026 instrument. The entries this register quotes, including hyaluronic acid, calcium hydroxylapatite, polylactic acid and polycaprolactone, are word for word unchanged. Compared with the June 2026 text line by line on 5 October 2026, the changes are these.
      • Schedule 4 adds bempedoic acid, efanesoctocog alfa, enflicoxib, eplontersen, gadoquatrane, gepotidacin, lonapegsomatropin, olutasidenib, somatrogon, tapinarof and teplizumab.
      • Schedule 4 renames orebrutinib to orelabrutinib.
      • The Schedule 4 entries for enzalutamide, macitentan, pomalidomide and somapacitan now carry the # mark, which the instrument says shows a substance listed in Appendix D. Appendix D adds lonapegsomatropin, somapacitan and somatrogon.
      • Schedule 5 adds green tea extract (Camellia sinensis) for oral use, with two exceptions, and spidoxamat.
      • Schedule 6 adds BPA glycidyl diacrylate and BPA glycidyl dimethacrylate in preparations for cosmetic use, and dimethyl disulfide as a soil fumigant.
      • Schedule 9 adds 6-methylnicotine.
      • Schedule 10 lowers the lead limit for anti-fouling paints from 0.1% to 0.06%.
      • Appendix B adds Bacillus paralicheniformis, and Appendices E, F and L add the first aid, warning and dispensing label statements for the new entries.
      • References to Therapeutic Goods Orders 91 and 92 now name the labelling orders TGO 115 and TGO 116.
    • 1 June 2026Poisons Standard June 2026 (F2026L00633)Made on 27 May 2026 and commencing on 1 June 2026. The Federal Register records it as repealed from 1 October 2026.

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  7. Frequently asked questions on the new Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods legislation

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 4 September 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's answers to general questions about the new legislation, including when it commences and what it changes for cosmetic use medicines.

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  8. Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods legislation update

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health, Pharmaceutical Services. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 3 July 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's dated notices about the move from the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 and Regulation 2008 to the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 and Regulation 2026, including the commencement date and the consultation on cosmetic use medicines.

    What changed

    • 3 July 2026July 2026: New laws to commence 5 November 2026States that the Regulation has been published and the Act and Regulation commence on 5 November 2026, and records the Minister's approval of the Regulation on 3 July 2026.
      • Act and Regulation commence 5 November 2026
      • The Minister's approval of the Regulation on 3 July 2026
      • NSW Health says it will circulate information and guidance to practitioners and industry
    • April 2026: expressions of interest for new statutory committeesExpressions of interest opened for the Regulatory Advisory Committee and Clinical Advisory Committee, to be established on commencement of the Act.
    • 27 February 2026February 2026: consultation on cosmetic use medicinesThe consultation on proposed regulatory changes aimed at strengthening controls on cosmetic-use substances closed on 27 February 2026.

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  9. NSW medicines, poisons and therapeutic goods legislation overview

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health, Pharmaceutical Services. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 6 July 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's overview of the new medicines, poisons and therapeutic goods laws, grouped by who they affect. It names cosmetic clinics as a group: clinic owners and health practitioners who obtain, prescribe, supply and administer cosmetic use substances.

    What changed

    • 6 July 2026Current as at 6 July 2026The page's own currency date.

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  10. Cosmetic procedures: new laws that apply to administering cosmetic medicines

    A department's reading of the legislation. NSW Health. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 13 July 2021
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Recorded as the department's reading, not as law. It describes the cosmetic medicines requirements added to the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008 from 1 September 2021, which apply until the 2026 Regulation commences on 5 November 2026.

    What changed

    • 1 September 2021Amendments to the 2008 Regulation take effectThe page states amendments to the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008 come into effect from 1 September 2021 to improve the safety of cosmetic medicines.
      • Prohibits a person other than an authorised practitioner, or a nurse acting under the direction of a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner, from administering cosmetic medicines
      • Requires the prescriber to personally review the patient, including by audio-visual link
      • Sets storage requirements on the occupier of the premises
      • Requires businesses to keep records, have risk management policies and procedures, have emergency equipment and ensure nurses are trained for patient medical emergencies

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  11. Cosmetic treatment by unauthorised persons

    A department's reading of the legislation. NSW Health, Pharmaceutical Services. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 8 April 2024
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Recorded as the department's reading, not as law. It covers the administration of unregistered or unlisted therapeutic goods, including imported botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid dermal fillers, and the administration and supply of injectable botulinum toxin and fillers by unauthorised persons.

    What changed

    • 8 April 2024Current as at 8 April 2024The page's own currency date.

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  12. Cosmetic use substances

    A department's reading of the legislation. NSW Health, Pharmaceutical Services. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 6 July 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Recorded as the department's reading of the new framework, not as law. The page outlines the requirements that apply from 5 November 2026 to prescribers, nurses and cosmetic businesses: the list of cosmetic use substances, directions, administration, storage, record keeping and penalties. Read it beside Part 9 of the Regulation rather than in place of it.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026Requirements apply from 5 November 2026The page states that from 5 November 2026 the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act and Regulation are replaced by the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2022 and Regulation 2026, and that the page outlines the requirements that apply from then.
      • Lists cosmetic use substances as Schedule 4 medicines: botulinum toxins, dermal fillers and similar products (calcium hydroxylapatite, collagen, hyaluronic acid and its polymers, polyacrylamide, polycaprolactone, polylactic acid) and deoxycholic acid
      • Says a prescriber must personally review the patient in person or by video consultation before prescribing or giving a written direction, and that a verbal direction is only allowed if the prescriber is physically present at administration
      • Says written directions are valid for 6 months and must be signed
      • Says a nurse may administer under a direction, or administer a substance lawfully prescribed and dispensed for the patient
      • Says storage must be in a non-public area, apart from food, in a way that prevents contamination and in line with the label
      • Says responsible providers keep copies of directions and administration records, and that directions and records are made and kept for 2 years
      • Says penalties come in 5 tiers, from 20 to 400 penalty units for individuals and 100 to 2000 for corporations
    • 6 July 2026Current as at 6 July 2026The page's own currency date.

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  13. Legislation changes for nurse practitioners and endorsed nurses

    A department's reading of the legislation. NSW Health, Pharmaceutical Services. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 24 August 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Recorded as the department's reading of the new framework, not as law. It covers what changes from 5 November 2026 for nurse practitioners and designated registered nurse prescribers, and says what a designated registered nurse may and may not do with cosmetic use medicines.

    What changed

    • 5 November 2026Changes from 5 November 2026The page states the changes for nurse practitioners and designated registered nurse prescribers that apply from 5 November 2026.
      • Says designated registered nurses cannot issue a direction to supply or administer cosmetic use medicines
      • Says designated registered nurses cannot administer a cosmetic use medicine without a direction from a medical practitioner or a nurse practitioner
      • Says designated registered nurses can administer a cosmetic use medicine lawfully prescribed by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner and dispensed from a pharmacy
      • Says Schedule 4D prescriptions are valid for 12 months, up from 6 months
    • 24 August 2026Current as at 24 August 2026The page's own currency date.

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  14. National Vaccine Storage Guidelines 'Strive for 5'

    Professional standard. Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Publication date September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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Biologicals and unapproved goods

8 sources

The exclusions and exemptions listed here for products made from a patient's own blood, cells or tissues are written around a registered medical or dental practitioner, and the TGA's guidance on platelet-rich plasma states that its exemptions do not apply to other health practitioners. How that applies to a particular clinic is a question for the clinic and its own advisers, and ClinicTrace takes no position on it.

  1. Therapeutic Goods (Biologicals, Specified Things) Instrument 2021

    Legislation. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    As made, commenced 30 September 2021
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The instrument deciding what is and is not a biological for the purposes of the Therapeutic Goods Act. Its Schedule 2 determines that biological medicines are not biologicals, and notes that biological medicines include blood and blood components.

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  2. Therapeutic Goods (Excluded Goods) Determination 2018

    Legislation. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 11, 8 August 2024
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The instrument listing goods excluded from the Therapeutic Goods Act altogether, either outright or when used or presented in a particular way. Schedule 2, item 4A covers goods made from a patient's own cells or tissues, with conditions about the practitioner who has the patient's clinical care, the hospital the goods are made in, and advertising to consumers.

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  3. Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 130, 8 September 2026
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    The Regulations under the Therapeutic Goods Act. They define minimal manipulation and homologous use, set the conditions of the exemptions for goods made from a patient's own cells or tissues, define the seriously ill patient the notification pathway for unapproved goods is built around, prescribe the medical practitioners who can hold an authorised prescriber authority, and exempt goods an individual imports for their own treatment or their immediate family's.

    What changed

    • 5 October 2026Amendment not yet incorporated in a compilation (F2026L01167, Schedule 1, Part 4)The Federal Register lists Schedule 1, items 50 to 58 of the Therapeutic Goods Legislation Amendment (2026 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2026 as amending these Regulations from 5 October 2026. The items insert definitions of master file, plasma master file and technical master file in regulation 2, change the reference to the Schedule 5A table in subregulations 12(2) and (3), set that table out as clause 1 and add items 18 and 19 to it for human blood and blood components and for imported plasma for fractionation, add clauses 2 to 6 to Schedule 5A on applying for and approving master files, amend item 9 and repeal item 10 of the Schedule 5 table, add two decisions to subregulation 48(1AB), and add a master file fee as item 9B in clause 3 of Schedule 9.
    • 8 September 2026Compilation No. 130The Federal Register records this compilation as taking in Schedule 1, items 8 to 35, 37, 41 to 45 and 47 of the Therapeutic Goods Legislation Amendment (2026 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2026.

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  4. Becoming an authorised prescriber for unapproved therapeutic goods in Australia

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 23 December 2025
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance on the authority a medical practitioner can hold to supply a specified unapproved good to a class of patients, and on who is eligible to hold it.

    What changed

    • 1 October 2004First published 1 October 2004The page states a publication date of 1 October 2004 and a last updated date of 23 December 2025.

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  5. Personal Importation Scheme

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 8 September 2026
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's page on individuals importing therapeutic goods that are not on the Register for their own use or their immediate family's, and the conditions that apply.

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  6. Regulating platelet-rich plasma (PRP), platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) and conditioned serum

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 30 September 2024
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance on how platelet-rich plasma, platelet-rich fibrin and conditioned serum are regulated: when they are excluded, when they are regulated as blood components with exemptions, when they are regulated as biologicals, and whether they can be advertised. Its exemption criteria are written around a registered medical or dental practitioner.

    What changed

    • 5 July 2019First published 5 July 2019The page states a publication date of 5 July 2019 and a last updated date of 30 September 2024.

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  7. Special Access Scheme (SAS): Guidance for health practitioners accessing unapproved therapeutic goods

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 1 October 2024
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance for health practitioners supplying a therapeutic good that is not on the Register to an individual patient, including which kinds of practitioner can use each Special Access Scheme category.

    What changed

    • 2 January 2023First published 2 January 2023The page states a publication date of 2 January 2023 and a last updated date of 1 October 2024.

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  8. Understanding regulation of autologous human cell and tissue (HCT) products

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 24 September 2024
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance on its three levels of regulation for products made from a patient's own cells or tissues, which it lists as including blood components, platelet-rich plasma, platelet-rich fibrin and adipose-derived cell extracts.

    What changed

    • 1 July 2018First published 1 July 2018The page states a publication date of 1 July 2018 and a last updated date of 24 September 2024.

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Medical devices

2 sources

  1. Therapeutic Goods (Medical Devices) Regulations 2002 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 72, 8 September 2026
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The Regulations for medical devices: the essential principles every device is designed and produced to meet, and the rules that classify each device.

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  2. Supplying or manufacturing medical devices containing poisons

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 30 September 2024
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance on medical devices that contain a scheduled substance, such as dermal fillers and other injectable implants: which of them the Poisons Standard applies to, and how they are labelled.

    What changed

    • 20 April 2018First published 20 April 2018The page states a publication date of 20 April 2018 and a last updated date of 30 September 2024.

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Infection prevention

11 sources

  1. Public Health Act 2010 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 September 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Carries New South Wales's skin penetration provisions (Part 3, Division 4), the council inspection powers that go with them, the power to make a code of conduct for non-registered health practitioners, and the general rule on advertising health services. The definition of a skin penetration procedure takes out procedures carried out by a registered health practitioner, or by a person acting under a registered health practitioner's direction or supervision, in the course of providing a health service.

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  2. Public Health Regulation 2022 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 August 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Part 4 sets the requirements for skin penetration premises, equipment, sterilisation records, needles, protective equipment, inks and pigments, and notification to the local council. Schedule 3 is the code of conduct for non-registered health practitioners, which includes a duty to adopt standard precautions for infection control, to keep clinical records and to display the code. Section 32 declares colonic lavage a skin penetration procedure and laser hair removal not one.

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  3. How to clean and sterilise reusable skin penetration equipment and instruments (NSW Health fact sheet)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 21 November 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's step by step guidance on cleaning, packaging, sterilising and recording reprocessing of reusable instruments, with the Regulation's twelve month record requirement. It cites AS 5369:2023 as the standard the Regulation points to. The companion fact sheet 'Cleaning and sterilising reusable equipment and instruments' covers the reprocessing area layout.

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  4. Microdermabrasion (NSW Health fact sheet)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 31 August 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's infection control fact sheet for microdermabrasion, a cosmetic treatment that does not necessarily penetrate the skin. It covers equipment, single use heads, linen, business hygiene and hand hygiene.

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  5. Notification of Skin Penetration Procedures (NSW Health form)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    SHPN (HPNSW) 250850, September 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The form for giving the local council notice of skin penetration procedures at premises under section 38(2) of the Act and section 42 of the Regulation. It lists the procedures it asks about and says the council must be told of a change of particulars within 7 days.

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  6. Role and powers of authorised officers (NSW Health fact sheet)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 16 September 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's description of how authorised officers are appointed, that they may inspect skin penetration businesses with or without notice, and the powers listed in Part 8 of the Act, including entering premises and copying documents.

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  7. Skin penetration (NSW Health)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 10 August 2023
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's landing page for the skin penetration industry. It quotes the Act's definition including the exclusion for registered health practitioners, says the Health Care Complaints Commission regulates activities by registered health practitioners, lists the activities it treats as regulated, and links to the fact sheets and the notification form.

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  8. Skin penetration business design and construction (NSW Health fact sheet)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 21 November 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's fact sheet on designing a skin penetration business: construction standards, hand basins, the equipment cleaning sink, the reprocessing area layout, sharps containers and council registration before opening.

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  9. Beauty treatment businesses (NSW Health fact sheet)

    A department's reading of the legislation. NSW Health. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 21 November 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's fact sheet for beauticians who carry out skin penetration procedures: equipment, sterilisation, business hygiene, sharps and clinical waste. It also states which practitioners it says can administer Schedule 4 injectable medicines, so it is listed as the department's reading as well as guidance.

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  10. Beauty, body art and skin penetration industries (NSW Health fact sheet)

    A department's reading of the legislation. NSW Health. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 21 November 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's statement that skin penetration procedures carried out by a registered health practitioner, or by a person acting under their direction or supervision, while providing a health service are not skin penetration procedures for the Act or the Regulation. The same fact sheet says businesses carrying out skin penetration must be registered with the local council, and names who the Regulation's additional rules apply to. Listed as the department's reading of the Act, after the Act.

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  11. Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare

    Professional standard. National Health and Medical Research Council. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    V11.27, published 8 April 2026
    Last read
    29 September 2026

    The 2019 edition, maintained by NHMRC with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and updated in numbered versions on the Commission's site. The HTML version on MAGICapp can be ahead of the PDF.

    What changed

    • 8 April 2026V11.27The Commission's page states that V11.27 was published on 8 April 2026, with updates to section 6.4 and to Table A2.5.

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Radiation safety

5 sources

  1. Protection from Harmful Radiation Act 1990 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 12 December 2025 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW Act under which the Environment Protection Authority licenses the management and use of regulated material. Regulated material covers radioactive substances, ionising radiation apparatus, sealed source devices and only those kinds of non-ionising radiation apparatus that the regulations prescribe.

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  2. Protection from Harmful Radiation Regulation 2025 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 December 2025 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW regulation under the Protection from Harmful Radiation Act 1990 covering licensing, exemptions, radiation management plans, supervision, records and dose limits, and the ban on commercial use of tanning units. It replaced the Protection from Harmful Radiation Regulation 2013.

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  3. Information on lasers

    Regulator guidance. NSW Environment Protection Authority. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Updated 17 January 2022
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The EPA's own statement on lasers, including lasers used for cosmetic purposes, and where it points the public instead.

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  4. Radiation user licence: introduction

    Regulator guidance. NSW Environment Protection Authority. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Updated 1 September 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The EPA's account of who needs a radiation user licence and what counts as regulated material.

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  5. Radiation Protection Series

    Professional standard. Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Published nationally and adopted selectively by the states, so the operative version for a Queensland clinic is whichever one Queensland's own standards notice names.

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Privacy and records

14 sources

  1. Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 No 71 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 30 September 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW Act that sets the Health Privacy Principles (Schedule 1) and applies to every organisation that is a health service provider or that collects, holds or uses health information, so it reaches a private clinic as well as the public sector. It carries the NSW retention rule for private health service providers in section 25 (seven years from the last service for an adult, or until age 25 for a child), the right of access in Division 3 of Part 4 and the privacy complaint route to the NSW Privacy Commissioner. It applies alongside the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988, not in place of it.

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  2. Health Records and Information Privacy Regulation 2022 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 19 June 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Regulation made under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. It prescribes further services as health services, sets extra circumstances in which health information can be used or disclosed for a secondary purpose (including when a Council asks for it to assist with a complaint against a registered practitioner under Part 8 of the National Law (NSW) or the Health Care Complaints Act) and covers the Commonwealth's national digital health record system and certain public sector arrangements. None of its prescribed health services is a cosmetic or aesthetic service.

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  3. Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 104, 4 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind the Australian Privacy Principles and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. It also carries the definitions that settle which organisations the principles reach, including how a small business providing a health service is treated, which is the part of the Act small operators reach for last.

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  4. Australian Privacy Principles guidelines

    Regulator guidance. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Consolidated guidelines updated 13 May 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  5. Digital scribes

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 30 January 2026
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    The therapeutic goods regulator's account of when a digital scribe is software that must be included in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.

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  6. Guidance on privacy and the use of commercially available AI products

    Regulator guidance. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Updated 17 January 2025
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    The privacy regulator's guidance for organisations choosing and using AI products that handle personal information: due diligence, privacy impact assessment, transparency and the Australian Privacy Principles that apply.

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  7. Information and Privacy Commission NSW: information for private NSW health service providers

    Regulator guidance. Information and Privacy Commission NSW. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Page undated
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Privacy Commissioner's hub for private health service providers in NSW. It collects the fact sheets on the Health Privacy Principles, on access to health information and on retention and storage, a checklist for responding to an access request, and four statutory guidelines that set the scope of exemptions in the principles.

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  8. IPC fact sheet: a guide to retention and storage of health information in NSW for private health service providers

    Regulator guidance. Information and Privacy Commission NSW. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    October 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Privacy Commissioner's reading of section 25 of the Health Records and Information Privacy Act for private providers. It works through the seven-year and age-25 retention periods with examples, the record kept when information is deleted or transferred, electronic records that can be printed, security under HPP 5 and the Commonwealth Act on the national digital health record.

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  9. IPC fact sheet: Health Privacy Principles (HPPs)

    Regulator guidance. Information and Privacy Commission NSW. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    May 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Privacy Commissioner's summary of the 15 Health Privacy Principles in Schedule 1 of the Health Records and Information Privacy Act, under the headings collection, storage, access and accuracy, use, disclosure, identifiers and anonymity, and transferrals and linkage. It says the Act applies to a private sector person that is a health service provider.

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  10. IPC fact sheet: privacy-related complaints under the HRIP Act

    Regulator guidance. Information and Privacy Commission NSW. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    November 2022
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Privacy Commissioner's account of how a patient complains about a breach of the privacy of their health information, including a refusal of access. It states that the Act applies to every organisation operating in NSW that is a health service provider or collects, holds or uses health information, and that a private sector health service provider is also bound by the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988.

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  11. IPC fact sheet: providing access to health information, guidance for health care providers

    Regulator guidance. Information and Privacy Commission NSW. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    October 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Privacy Commissioner's guidance on a patient's right of access to their health information under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act. It covers who can ask, the forms access can take, the situations in which access can be refused and what an access request looks like.

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  12. Meeting your professional obligations when using Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

    Regulator guidance. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Page reviewed 22 August 2024
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    Ahpra and the National Boards' guidance on how practitioners' existing obligations apply when they use AI: accountability, understanding the tool, transparency, informed consent and the ethical and legal issues.

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  13. Notifiable Data Breaches scheme

    Regulator guidance. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  14. Privacy guidance for health service providers

    Regulator guidance. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance written for health service providers specifically.

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Work health and safety

13 sources

  1. Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act 2017 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 13 January 2023 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW Act on consumer safety for electrical and gas products and services: standards for selling electrical articles, standards for electrical installations and the notification of serious electrical accidents by the occupier of the place.

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  2. Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Regulation 2018 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 26 June 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW regulation under the Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act 2017: sale of electrical articles, installation work and certificates, maintenance of electrical installations, and the manner of notifying serious electrical accidents.

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  3. Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 July 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The New South Wales work health and safety legislation, which sets the duties a business or undertaking and its officers are read against, including the duty to notify the regulator of a notifiable incident and to keep a record of it.

    What changed

    • 1 July 2026Current version for 1 July 2026 to dateSafeWork NSW's page on the Workplace Protections Amendment Act lists a new duty to comply with codes of practice as commencing on 1 July 2026. The Act carries it as section 26A, shown as inserted by 2025 No 42, Sch 3[2].

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  4. Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 3 July 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW regulation under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. For a clinic it carries the inspection and testing of electrical equipment (s 150), unsafe electrical equipment (s 149), testing of residual current devices (s 165) and the duties on a person with management or control of laser equipment (s 223).

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  5. Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 October 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Act behind a New South Wales employer's workers compensation policy, and the records of wages an employer keeps for premium purposes.

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  6. Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 October 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Act on injury management and claims procedures for injured workers, including an employer's return-to-work program and the register of injuries kept at a workplace.

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  7. Code of Practice: First aid in the workplace (January 2020)

    Regulator guidance. SafeWork NSW. Code, New South Wales.

    Version
    January 2020
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    A code of practice under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) on first aid equipment, facilities and trained first aiders, and on keeping a record of first aid treatment given.

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  8. Code of practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace (August 2019)

    Regulator guidance. SafeWork NSW. Code, New South Wales.

    Version
    August 2019
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The code of practice under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) on managing electrical risks, which includes guidance on in-service inspection and testing and says where AS/NZS 3760 does not reach medical devices and patient care areas.

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  9. Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work (May 2021)

    Regulator guidance. SafeWork NSW. Code, New South Wales.

    Version
    May 2021
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    A code of practice under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) on identifying, assessing and controlling psychosocial hazards at work. SafeWork NSW's page on it says the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 strengthened the requirements it supports.

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  10. Electrical inspection and testing

    Regulator guidance. SafeWork NSW. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    SafeWork NSW's account of inspecting, testing and tagging electrical equipment at a workplace, including the standards it names and what a testing record contains.

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  11. First aid in the workplace

    Regulator guidance. SafeWork NSW. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    SafeWork NSW's page on first aid at work: first aid equipment, facilities and trained first aiders, how many first aiders a workplace has, and the ratio table it takes from the code of practice.

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  12. Incident notification

    Regulator guidance. SafeWork NSW. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    SafeWork NSW's page on notifying the regulator of a serious injury or illness, a death or a dangerous incident, with the register of injuries and notice to the workers compensation insurer that go with it.

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  13. Who needs a Workers Compensation policy

    Regulator guidance. icare (Insurance and Care NSW). Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    icare's page on who needs a workers compensation policy in New South Wales, including what counts as an employer and the small-wages exemption.

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Clinical and general waste

9 sources

  1. Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 June 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The regulation that sets how clinical and related waste is stored, labelled and carried, and that runs the tracking provisions for listed waste moved within, into and out of New South Wales. Clinical and related wastes appear in Schedule 1 Part 1 of its tracking schedule.

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  2. Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 July 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Act behind NSW waste regulation. Its definitions pre-classify clinical and related waste, which takes in clinical waste, cytotoxic waste, pharmaceutical, drug or medicine waste and sharps waste, and its waste offences are where unlawful transport and deposit of waste are dealt with.

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  3. Clinical waste management

    Regulator guidance. NSW Health. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current as at 14 September 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    NSW Health's page describing clinical waste, including skin penetration activity, saying that waste treated by a method the EPA approves in writing stops being clinical waste, and linking policy directive PD2020_049 for health care facilities.

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  4. Sharps waste

    Regulator guidance. NSW Environment Protection Authority. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Updated 28 November 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The EPA's page on sharps waste. It explains what the definition takes in, including sharps used for skin penetration or injection for medical or non-medical reasons, what it leaves out, and what it says health professionals and businesses that run a sharps collection service do about a Clinical and Related Waste Management Plan.

    What changed

    • 28 November 2025Updated 28 November 2025The EPA gives this as the page's update date and says nothing about what changed.

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  5. Tracking and transporting hazardous waste

    Regulator guidance. NSW Environment Protection Authority. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Updated 11 November 2025
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The EPA's overview of waste tracking under Part 4 of the Waste Regulation. It explains who the waste consignor is and the steps of consignment authorisation and transport certificate, and says the Integrated Waste Tracking Solution has replaced the Online Waste Tracking and WasteLocate systems.

    What changed

    • 11 November 2025Updated 11 November 2025The page says the Integrated Waste Tracking Solution has replaced the Online Waste Tracking and WasteLocate systems.

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  6. Waste Classification Guidelines, Part 1: Classifying waste

    Regulator guidance. NSW Environment Protection Authority. Guideline, New South Wales.

    Version
    Part 1 dated November 2014; web page updated 14 July 2021
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The EPA's step by step guide to classifying waste. Step 1 asks whether the waste is special waste, a class that includes clinical and related waste, and says a generator of special waste need not assess it further unless it is mixed with restricted solid or hazardous waste.

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  7. Waste that needs to be tracked

    Regulator guidance. NSW Environment Protection Authority. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Updated 08 August 2018
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The EPA's list of the waste types that must be tracked when moved within NSW or interstate. Clinical and related wastes appear in Table 1 under code R100, and the page says waste that does not exhibit a hazardous characteristic in Table 3 does not need to be tracked.

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Advertising

10 sources

Separate regulators sit over the same advertisement. Ahpra acts under the National Law. The Therapeutic Goods Administration acts under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and the Advertising Code made under it. The Australian Consumer Law, in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, applies as well, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission publishes guidance on it for medical professionals. Reading one regulator's guidance does not describe another regulator's rules, so each set is listed separately, by publisher.

  1. Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 167, 16 September 2026
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The Act carrying the Australian Consumer Law in its Schedule 2, including the prohibition on misleading or deceptive conduct and the provisions on false or misleading testimonials.

    Get a notice when this changesAbout this source

  2. Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021

    Legislation. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 1, 20 December 2022
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    F2021L01661. A separate regulator from Ahpra, with its own offences: advice written from the Ahpra guidelines alone misses it. What is in force is a compilation, and the Federal Register states its compilation date.

    What changed

    • 30 September 2026Amendment not yet incorporated in a compilation (F2026L01329)The Federal Register lists Schedule 1, items 1 to 5 of the Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Amendment (Standards for Labelling Consequential Amendments) Instrument 2026 as amending this instrument from 30 September 2026. The items replace the definitions of TGO 91 and TGO 92 in section 4 of Schedule 1 with definitions of TGO 115 and TGO 116, the labelling standards for prescription and non-prescription medicines, and change the references to them in sections 19 and 34 of Schedule 1.
    • 20 December 2022Compilation No. 1The Federal Register records this compilation as taking in an amendment made by the Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2022.
    • 1 December 2021Compilation No. 0, registered 1 December 2021The instrument as made.

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  3. Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 89, 5 September 2025
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The Act the Advertising Code is made under, and the Act carrying the offence provisions for advertising restricted and prohibited representations. A separate Act from the National Law, enforced by a separate regulator. It also defines a biological, carries the power to exclude goods from the Act, and provides the approvals and authorities for supplying goods that are not on the Register.

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  4. Guidelines for registered health practitioners who advertise higher risk non-surgical cosmetic procedures

    Board code or guideline. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    In effect from 2 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

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  5. Advertising health services and cosmetic injections: frequently asked questions and answers

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 21 July 2026
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The regulator's answers on advertising cosmetic injection services, question by question: biostimulators, polydioxanone threads, platelet-rich plasma, energy-based devices such as lasers, ultrasound and radio frequency devices, price lists, before and after photos and business names.

    What changed

    • 10 July 2025Updated 10 July 2025The page history records additional information in the answer on whether educational content about cosmetic injectables is an advertisement.
    • 10 May 2024Updated 10 May 2024The page history records updated questions and answers following the regulator's webinar of 10 April 2024 on advertising cosmetic injection health services.

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  6. Advertising health services that involve therapeutic goods

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 18 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's own guidance on where advertising a service becomes advertising the goods used in it. This is the boundary that advice written from the Ahpra guidelines alone tends to miss.

    What changed

    • 21 June 2022First published 21 June 2022The page states a publication date of 21 June 2022 and a last updated date of 18 June 2026.

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  7. Applying the Advertising Code

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 11 March 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's index to its guidance on the Advertising Code.

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  8. Complying with the restrictions on advertising prescription medicines to the public

    Regulator guidance. Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Last updated 23 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance on the prescription medicine advertising restrictions, which is a Commonwealth matter and separate from what Ahpra can act on.

    What changed

    • 18 June 2026First published 18 June 2026The page states a publication date of 18 June 2026 and a last updated date of 23 June 2026.

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  9. Guidelines for advertising a regulated health service

    Regulator guidance. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Ahpra acts under the National Law. The rules on advertising the medicines and devices used in a service come from a separate regulator and are listed under that regulator's own name.

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  10. Medical professionals

    Regulator guidance. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    24 September 2026

    The consumer regulator's page for medical professionals on treating patients fairly under the competition and consumer law, including information about fees, procedures, outcomes and advertising.

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Premises and local approvals

14 sources

  1. Environmental Planning and Assessment (Development Certification and Fire Safety) Regulation 2021 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 19 June 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The regulation under which the owner of a building with essential fire safety measures gives the council and the Fire Commissioner an annual fire safety statement and displays a copy with the current fire safety schedule in the building. Its duties sit with the building's owner.

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  2. Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 September 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Act behind development consent, complying development and the certificates that follow, including the rule that a change of building use needs an occupation certificate. It is the process a council's planning controls run when a shop or medical centre tenancy takes on a new use.

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  3. Local Government Act 1993 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 10 June 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Listed for its Dictionary definition of owner, which the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 adopts. It decides who holds the building owner's fire safety statement duties: the freehold owner, the person entitled to the rents, the owners corporation for a strata building, and a lessee of Crown land.

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  4. Private Health Facilities Act 2007 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 11 June 2025 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Licenses private health facilities. What counts as a private health facility depends on the services and treatments the regulations prescribe, so the Act only reaches a clinic that provides one of those. Section 33A lets the regulations say certain services or treatments must not be performed at a facility without a licence of a particular class.

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  5. Private Health Facilities Regulation 2024 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 14 August 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Prescribes the services and treatments that make premises a private health facility, including anaesthesia and cosmetic surgery, and says cosmetic surgery must not be performed at a private health facility unless it is a cosmetic surgery class facility. Cosmetic surgery is defined by a list of surgical procedures.

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  6. Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Order 2006 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Legislative instrument, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 July 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The order that sets the standard form and dictionary councils' local environmental plans use. Its dictionary defines medical centre, health consulting rooms, health services facility, business premises and shop, which are the use labels a clinic tenancy is tested against.

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  7. Change of use (exempt development)

    Regulator guidance. NSW Department of Planning and Environment (NSW Planning Portal). Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Last updated 20 June 2023
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Planning Portal page on changes of use that can be exempt development. It lists three categories of existing and proposed uses; the first covers business premises, office premises, shop and public administration building, and a change from one type of retail shop to another is described as a change of tenant.

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  8. Complying Development for Business and Industry: A Pocket Guide

    Regulator guidance. NSW Department of Planning and Environment. Guideline, New South Wales.

    Version
    First published May 2023
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Department's guide to complying development for business premises. It says a change of use that is not exempt needs a complying development certificate or a council development application, and lists medical centres and health consulting rooms among the specified purposes eligible for change of use under Part 5A of the Codes SEPP.

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  9. Fire safety statements: frequently asked questions

    Regulator guidance. NSW Department of Planning and Environment. Factsheet, New South Wales.

    Version
    Written October 2022 (publisher's own statement)
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Department's questions and answers on fire safety statements under the Development Certification and Fire Safety Regulation 2021, including who a building owner can be and who may issue a statement on the owner's behalf.

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  10. Lodge a fire safety statement

    Regulator guidance. Fire and Rescue NSW. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Fire and Rescue NSW's page on fire safety statements: what an annual and a supplementary statement are, that the owner of a building gives a copy to the Fire Commissioner, and that the statement is displayed in the building with the fire safety schedule.

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  11. Register your skin penetration business or event

    Regulator guidance. City of Sydney. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The City of Sydney's page for registering a skin penetration business. It states a one-off $105 business notification fee, lists the activities it treats as skin penetration (including microdermabrasion, cosmetic enhancements and beauty treatments), and says to check the premises' development consent first and that operating without development consent is an offence. Its registration form says an inspection fee is charged separately.

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  12. Skin penetration

    Regulator guidance. Northern Beaches Council. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    Northern Beaches Council's page on skin penetration businesses. It says businesses register with council before carrying out procedures, that council inspects against the Public Health Act 2010 and Public Health Regulation 2022, and that procedures in medical or dentistry practices are exempt when carried out by, or under the direction or supervision of, a registered medical practitioner or dentist. It also says development consent comes first.

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  13. Skin penetration (Randwick City Council)

    Regulator guidance. Randwick City Council. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Last updated 29 October 2024
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    A council's published account of which procedures and premises it registers for skin penetration, and which it treats as outside the Public Health Act 2010: procedures in the practice of a registered practitioner, including a nurse, and procedures under a practitioner's direction or supervision as part of that practice.

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  14. Skin Penetration and Beauty Premises

    Regulator guidance. City of Parramatta. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The City of Parramatta's page on inspections of skin penetration and beauty premises. It lists what the council's environmental health officer assesses (cleanliness, fit-out and construction, cleaning and sterilising facilities, waste storage and disposal including sharps and contaminated waste, and autoclave records). Its companion Register your Premise page says skin penetration and beauty businesses register with the council and notify it of a new business, closure, move, sale or change of trading name.

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Employment records

9 sources

  1. Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 73, 7 July 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act carrying the employee records and pay slip obligations, at sections 535 and 536, and the framework modern awards are made under.

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  2. Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 56, 20 June 2026
    Last read
    5 October 2026

    Lists, item by item, what an employee record holds and how long it is kept. The Act says records are kept; this says which ones.

    What changed

    • 1 November 2026Amendment not yet incorporated in a compilation (F2026L01352)The Federal Register lists Schedule 1, items 1 to 7 of the Fair Work Amendment (Fixed Term Contracts) Regulations 2026 as amending these Regulations from 1 November 2026. The items amend paragraphs 2.15(7)(b) and (i) and 2.15(9)(b) and (j), which deal with fixed term contracts, and insert an application provision as section 7.13 in Chapter 7.
    • 1 October 2026Amendment not yet incorporated in a compilation (F2026L01184)The Federal Register lists Schedule 1, items 4 to 7 of the Defence and Other Laws (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2026 as amending these Regulations from 1 October 2026. The items replace references to the Defence Regulation 2016 in paragraphs 3.29A(3)(a) to (c) with references to the Defence Regulations 2026, and insert an application provision as section 7.14 in Chapter 7.
    • 20 June 2026Compilation No. 56The Federal Register records this compilation as taking in Schedule 1, item 1 of the Fair Work Amendment (Exclusion of State and Territory Laws) Regulations 2026.

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  3. Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 1 July 2025 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    New South Wales long service leave legislation. It is listed because it sets long service leave for workers in this state and carries the long service leave record an employer keeps for each worker, so a clinic reading only the Fair Work Act has not read the whole subject.

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  4. Long Service Leave Regulation 2026 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Regulation, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 3 July 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The regulation setting what a long service leave record contains, the form it is kept in, who it is made available to, and how it moves to a new employer when a business is transferred.

    What changed

    • Long Service Leave Regulation 2026 replaces the Long Service Leave Regulation 2021The Regulation's own note says it repeals and replaces the 2021 Regulation, which would otherwise be repealed on 1 September 2026.

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  5. Nurses Award 2020 (MA000034)

    Legislation. Fair Work Commission. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Amendments up to and including 1 August 2026 (PR812118)
    Last read
    25 September 2026

    One of the modern awards that can cover nursing staff. Whether this award or another covers a given employee is a question for the clinic and its adviser.

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  6. Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth)

    Legislation. Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    Version
    Compilation No. 78, 1 July 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind employer superannuation contributions and the records kept of them.

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  7. Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 28 March 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The New South Wales Act on camera, computer and tracking surveillance of employees at work, including written notice to the employee and the rules for covert surveillance. It has no direct counterpart in the Queensland register.

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  8. Employment obligations for small business

    Regulator guidance. Fair Work Ombudsman. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    5 October 2026

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  9. Record-keeping

    Regulator guidance. Fair Work Ombudsman. Published page, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's plain language account of the same obligations, including the seven year retention period.

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Complaints

7 sources

  1. Health Care Complaints Act 1993 No 105 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 31 May 2024 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    This Act sets up the Health Care Complaints Commission and says what a complaint can be about, who can make one and how it is made. It covers both registered and non-registered health practitioners, so a complaint about a registered nurse and one about an unregistered injector go to the same Commission. It also gives the Commission the power to make prohibition orders against non-registered practitioners who breach the code of conduct. It is the NSW counterpart of the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 (Qld).

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  2. Health Practitioner Regulation (Adoption of National Law) Act 2009 No 86 (NSW)

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 10 April 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW Act that applies the National Law in New South Wales. It declares that NSW does not take part in the national health, performance and conduct process, makes each profession Council a co-regulatory authority and names the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal as the responsible tribunal. That is why complaints about a nurse in NSW are handled with the Health Care Complaints Commission and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of New South Wales rather than by Ahpra alone.

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  3. Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), Part 8 (health, performance and conduct) and the NSW Councils

    Legislation. NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

    Version
    Current version for 10 April 2026 to date
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW version of the National Law replaces most of Part 8 with a New South Wales process. A complaint about a registered health practitioner can be made to the practitioner's profession Council (the Nursing and Midwifery Council of New South Wales for a nurse) or to the Health Care Complaints Commission, the two consult on what happens next, and a mandatory notification is treated as a complaint. This is the NSW counterpart of the Queensland pathway through the Health Ombudsman and Ahpra.

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  4. Health Care Complaints Commission: Code of Conduct for non-registered health practitioners

    Regulator guidance. Health Care Complaints Commission. Code, New South Wales.

    Version
    Page last updated 15 January 2024
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Commission's page on the NSW Code of Conduct for non-registered health practitioners, which the page says is set out in Schedule 3 of the Public Health Regulation. The page says the Code applies to a practitioner who is not registered and to a registered practitioner providing health services unrelated to their registration, lists its headings (including record keeping, infection control, privacy and confidentiality policies and displaying the Code) and describes the Commission's power to make prohibition orders for a breach. It is a pointer to the Regulation, which is read as its own entry.

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  5. Health Care Complaints Commission: information for registered health practitioners and providers

    Regulator guidance. Health Care Complaints Commission. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Page undated; mandatory reporting page last updated 2 June 2020
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The Commission's pages for providers. They say the Commission manages complaints about registered practitioners in conjunction with the Health Professional Councils, and consults the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW on a complaint about a nurse or midwife. Linked pages describe the provider side of the process, including that the Commission asks the provider for a response and any required records within a stated timeframe, and the mandatory notification duties under Part 8 Division 2 of the National Law (NSW).

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  6. Health Care Complaints Commission: making a complaint (for patients)

    Regulator guidance. Health Care Complaints Commission. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Page last updated 14 September 2026
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The NSW complaints body's page for patients. It says a complaint must be in writing, gives an enquiry line (1800 043 159, toll free in NSW) and describes the online portal, complaint form, email and post routes. The Commission's linked pages say it deals with complaints about all health services and providers in NSW and aims to assess complaints within 60 days.

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  7. Health Professional Councils Authority: the complaints process and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW

    Regulator guidance. Health Professional Councils Authority. Published page, New South Wales.

    Version
    Page undated
    Last read
    7 October 2026

    The page, published by the authority that supports the NSW profession Councils, on how a complaint about a registered practitioner is handled. It says anyone, including employers and other practitioners, can complain; that a Council and the Health Care Complaints Commission agree who manages a complaint; that a Council can act urgently where public safety is at risk; and that the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW handles complaints about nurses and midwives in NSW.

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Clinical practice standards

1 source

  1. ANZCOR Guidelines

    Professional standard. Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation. Standard, Australia-wide.

    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Revised section by section rather than as one dated edition, so a clinic confirms the current guideline for the specific protocol it is writing.

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