Singapore legislation
Section 26
Section 26
Power of Council to remove names from registers
(1)
Despite the provisions of this Act, the Council may, upon such evidence as it may require, order the removal from the appropriate register of the name of a registered allied health professional under any of the following circumstances:
if he or she has been registered with restricted, conditional or temporary registration, and has failed to comply with any condition or restriction to which his or her registration is subject;
if he or she has been registered with conditional or temporary registration, and the Council is of the opinion, having regard to any review by a person mentioned in section 18(6)(c) or 19(5)(c) (as the case may be), that he or she is unable to perform the duties of an allied health professional with conditional or temporary registration (as the case may be) satisfactorily;
if he or she has been registered with conditional registration and the Council is of the opinion, having regard to a report of an allied health professional supervising him or her pursuant to a condition mentioned in section 18(6)(a), that he or she is unable to perform the duties of an allied health professional with conditional registration satisfactorily;
if he or she has obtained his or her registration fraudulently or by an incorrect statement;
if his or her qualification for registration under this Act has been withdrawn or cancelled by the authority or institution of higher learning through which it was acquired or by which it was awarded; (f)if he or she has had his or her registration (or its equivalent) in any other country withdrawn, suspended or cancelled by the authority which registered him or her.
(2)
The Council must, before exercising its powers under subsection (1), notify the registered allied health professional concerned of its intention to take such action and must give the registered allied health professional an opportunity to submit reasons why his or her name should not be removed.
(3)
Any person who is aggrieved by any order of the Council under subsection (1) may, within 30 days of being notified of the order, appeal to the Minister whose decision is final.