The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA) requires all health practitioners to advise the relevant regulatory authority if they have reason to believe that a health practitioner is unable to perform the functions required for the practice of their profession due to some mental or physical condition. This can include self-notification.

As well as being required to notify this Board of concerns about a psychotherspits health, all psychotherapists have a legal obligations to notify about any helath pracitioner (for example) the Medical Council of concerns about a doctor's health, or the Nrusing Council of concerns about a Nurses health.

The following people are also required to advise the Board if they believe that a psychotherapist is unable to perform the functions required for the practice of their profession due to some mental or physical condition:
* person in charge of an organisation that provides health services
* an employer of a health practitioner
* a medical officer of health.

A person in charge of an educational programme in New Zealand that includes a course of study that the Board has prescribed as a qualification for registration, and who believes a student of that course would be unable to perform the functions required for the practice of the profession due to some mental or physical condition must advise the Board of this.