Registration standards

Registration standards define the requirements that applicants, registrants or students need to meet to be registered.

The Board completed a review of its Continuing professional development registration standard in 2019. The revised registration standard took effect on 1 December 2019 and is included in the table below. More information about the revised standard can be found read the news item.

The Chiropractic Board of Australia has developed the following registration standards:

Document name	PDF	Accessible format	Document date
Continuing professional development registration standard	PDF (77.1KB)	Word version (74.7KB,DOCX)	1 December 2019
Criminal history registration standard	PDF(249KB)	Word version (574KB,DOCX)	1 July 2015
English language skills registration standard Additional resources for this standard are available on the AHPRA website.	PDF (375KB)	Word version (577KB,DOCX)	1 July 2015
Registration standard: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements Additional information about this standard is available on the AHPRA website.	PDF (361KB)	Word version (673 KB,DOCX)	1 July 2016
Recency of practice registration standard	PDF (51.1KB)	Word version (373KB,DOCX)	1 December 2015
Limited registration for teaching and research	PDF (284KB)		3 December 2012
Limited registration in the public interest	PDF (258KB)		22 October 2012

Background information

Ministerial Council approves registration standards

Document name	PDF	Document date
Ministerial Council approval letter for the following registration standards are published on the Ahpra website: English language skills registration standards	N/A	21 June 2024
Ministerial Council approval letter for the Continuing professional development registration standards are published on the Ahpra website.	N/A	30 June 2019
Ministerial Council approval letters for the following registration standards are published on the AHPRA website. continuing professional development recency of practice professional indemnity insurance arrangements	N/A	7 September 2015
Ministerial Council approval letters for the following registration standards are published on the AHPRA website. criminal history English language skills	N/A	30 April 2015
Approval of registration standards for limited registration in the public interest and limited registration for teaching and research	PDF (43.7KB)	10 August 2012
Approval of mandatory registration standards	PDF (63.2KB)	31 March 2010

A detailed consultation process supported the development of the Board’s registration standards.

Retired versions

Document name	PDF	Date of effect
Retired version: Continuing professional development registration standard	PDF (40.0KB)	1 December 2015 to 30 November 2019
Retired version: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements registration standard	PDF (223KB)	28 March 2011 to 30 June 2016
Retired version: Continuing professional development registration standard	PDF (330KB)	28 March 2011 to 30 November 2015
Retired version: Recency of practice registration standard	PDF(225KB)	28 March 2011 to 30 November 2015
Retired version: Criminal history registration standard	PDF (328 KB)	28 March 2011
Retired version: English language skills registration standard	PDF (329 KB)	28 March 2011