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How to renew your Annual Practising Certificate
 

The 2010/2011 APC renewals are now open

You may find it easier to print this information now, so that it can assist you as you go through the renewal process

You must login to renew your APC

Step 1 - Log in
Log into your personal profile on the Board's website using your email and password (if you have forgotten this information contact the Registrar on registrar@pbanz.org.nz or 04 9184727)

If you have completed your registration manually (on a form sent to you by the Registrar) contact the Registrar 04 9184727

Step 2 - Update your personal information including: (This step must be carried out)

Change of Address
You must promptly give the Register of Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand notice of any change of postal address, residential address, and work address (HPCAA Section 140(2)). To do this update your personal profile.

Change of Name
If you change your name, you must give the Register of Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand written notice of your new name within one month of the change (HPCAA Section 141(2)). You must send to the Register a certified copy as evidence of your name change i.e. marriage certificate or deed poll

Step 3 Make your APC payment
If you do not choose to make your payment online you will be given the opportunity to make your APC payment during the completion of the APC Renewal Form (following).

If applying for one of the below, please ensure you provide the appropriate documentation. Please read the polices located under "Board Policies" to find the appropriate documenation.
1. Reduced APC Fee
2. Quarterly Payment Option

Step 4 - Print off and fill out the APC Renewal Form.
Step 5 - Send your completed form, and payment to the Registrar
Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand
PO BOX 10-787
The Terrace
Wellington
Assistance
Contact Jacq on registrar@pbanz.org.nz or 049184727 with any questions
 

Additional Information

In addition to being registered, a psychotherapist must hold a current APC in order to practice legally in New Zealand (refer section 7 of the HPCA Act)

The principal purpose of the HPCA Act is to "protect the health and safety of members of the public by providing for mechanisms to ensure that health practitioners are competent and fit to practice their professions". You are applying for an APC under the HPCAA Act 2003 – Section 26(i).

Section 7 (2) of the HPCAA states that "no person may claim to be practicing a profession as a health practitioner of a particular kind or state or do anything that is calculated to suggest that the person practises or is willing to practice a profession as a health practitioner unless the person is a health practitioner of that kind; and holds a current practising certificate as a health practitioner of that kind"

You must hold an Annual Practising Certificate if you intend to practice as a psychotherapist in New Zealand for all or part of a year. It is the registered health practitioner's responsibility to make sure that he/she holds a current APC. This responsibility cannot be passed onto an employer

If the application form and fee payment are not received by Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand before midnight on the 1st October 2010, you will have no legal entitlement to practice as a psychotherapist on the 2nd October 2010 or any subsequent day until the date that a new practicing certificate is issued to you. Renewing your APC late (letting it lapse) puts at risk your lawful practice as a psychotherapist.

Note 1: Each year the Board must review whether an applicant has within the three years immediately preceding the date of application, lawfully practiced the profession to which the application relates.

Note 2: If you are renewing a practicing certificate provided you have not let your practicing certificate lapse, you will be treated as the holder of your new practicing certificate from the date the Board receives your application, including payment, until the date it is issued or you are notified that it will not be issued.

If your completed APC renewal form and payment is not with the Board prior to the 1st October your APC will have lapsed. APC's will not be backdated.