28B   Temporary enrolment

(1)  The Board may, on the application in writing of any person who wishes to obtain a certificate of temporary enrolment and on being paid the prescribed fee, issue to the person a certificate of temporary enrolment in the prescribed form on being satisfied that:

(a)  the person has adequate qualifications to practise nursing in New South Wales and proposes while in New South Wales to undertake teaching or research work in nursing, or

(b)  for a reason accepted by the Board the person should be permitted to practise nursing in New South Wales temporarily.

(2)  A certificate of temporary enrolment may be issued unconditionally or subject to such conditions, including a condition as to the capacity in which the person to whom it is issued may practise as a nurse, as the Board considers appropriate.

(3)  A person to whom a certificate of temporary enrolment has been issued is, while the certificate is in force and the person complies with any conditions endorsed on the certificate, taken to be enrolled as a nurse for the purposes of sections 5 and 37 but, if applicable, only in the capacity specified in the certificate.

(4)  A certificate of temporary enrolment issued under this section, unless sooner cancelled under subsection (5), remains in force for such period not exceeding 12 months as the Board may determine, but the Board may from time to time renew such a certificate for a further period not exceeding 12 months.

(5)  The Board may, by notice given by post to the holder of the certificate at the last address of the holder shown in the record kept under section 26 (4), cancel a certificate of temporary enrolment in force under this section for failure to comply with any condition subject to which the certificate is issued or for any other reason that it considers appropriate and, on any such notice being given to the holder of such a certificate, the certificate ceases to be in force.

(6)  For the purposes of this section, a reference to a certificate of temporary enrolment includes a reference to such a certificate that is renewed under subsection (4).