Our Role

The Chiropractic Board is a statutory body operating under the provisions of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (the Act).  Part 6 of the Act sets out the functions of the Board as follows:

• to prescribe the qualifications required for scopes of practice within the profession and for that purpose, to accredit and monitor educational institutions and degrees, courses of studies, or programmes;
• to authorise the registration of health practitioners under this Act and to maintain registers;
• to consider applications for annual practising certificates;
• to review and promote the competence of health practitioners;
• to recognise, accredit and set programmes to ensure the ongoing competence of health practitioners;
• to receive and act on information from health practitioners, employers and the Health and Disability Commissioner about the competence of health practitioners;
• to notify employers, the Accident Compensation Corporation, the Director-General of Health and the Health and Disability Commissioner that the practice of a health practitioner may pose a risk of harm to the public;
• to consider the cases of health practitioners who may be unable to perform the functions required for the practice of the profession;
• to set standards of clinical competence, cultural competence and ethical conduct to be observed by the health practitioners of the profession;
• to liaise with other authorities appointed under the Act about matters of common interest;
• to promote education and training in the profession;
• to promote public awareness of the responsibilities of the authority;
• to exercise and perform any other functions, powers and duties that are conferred or imposed on it byor under this Act or any other enactment.