s 16 Full registration
16.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person who is or was an allied health professional with conditional registration in a prescribed allied health profession under section 18(1)(a) may be registered as an allied health professional with full registration in that profession if the person —(a) has, to the satisfaction of the Council, complied with the conditions and restrictions imposed on his or her registration under section 18(5); and (b) satisfies such other requirements as the Council may, with the approval of the Minister, prescribe. (2) Despite subsection (1), a person who —(a) holds any qualification recognised by the Council for the purposes of this subsection; and (b) satisfies the Council that he or she has the knowledge and skill and sufficient experience in a prescribed allied health profession, may, if the Council thinks fit so to direct, be registered as an allied health professional with full registration in that prescribed allied health profession. (3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the Council may, if it is of the view that it is not in the public interest for a person mentioned in either of those subsections to be registered as an allied health professional with full registration, direct that the person be registered —(a) provided section 17(1) is satisfied, as an allied health professional with restricted registration in any prescribed allied health profession, and section 17(2) and (3) applies accordingly; or (b) as an allied health professional with conditional registration in any prescribed allied health profession, and section 18(4) to (9) applies accordingly.