In November 2010, State, Territory and Commonwealth Health Ministers agreed to conduct a national consultation on options for strengthening the regulation of those health practitioners where statutory registration is not a prerequisite for practice (those known as 'unregistered health practitioners'). The national consultation is to consider whether there is a need for strengthened regulatory protections for consumers who use the services of unregistered health practitioners, and if so, what these should be and how they should be structured and administered. A consultation paper was released by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) in February 2011 outlining options for strengthened regulation. The paper was assessed as adequate by the Office of Best Practice Regulation as a consultation Regulation Impact Statement
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