Registration Standards

December 2024

Ahpra and National Boards (except for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia) have published advance copies of the revised Registration standards: English Language Skills (the ELS standards) on the Ahpra website. Please note that the 2015 ELS standards will remain current until the revised ELS standards come into effect by April 2025. We are focusing on improving the applicant experience and will provide more specific information about when the standard will come into effect in early 2025.

Registration standards (together with the National Law) set out the requirements that applicants and registrants need to meet to be registered. For additional information, please refer to the Codes and Guidelines.

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

Core registration standards

With the exception of registered students and non-practising registrants, these standards apply to all applicants for registration and registered podiatrists and podiatric surgeons.

Document name	PDF	Accessible format	Document date
Podiatry continuing professional development registration standard	PDF (153KB)	Word version (56.6 KB,DOCX)	1 December 2015
Podiatry criminal history registration standard	PDF (249KB)	Word version (574KB,DOCX)	1 July 2015
Podiatry English language skills registration standard Additional information about this standard is 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 (87.3KB)	Word version (651 KB,DOCX)	1 July 2016
Registration standard: Podiatry recency of practice Additional information about this standard is available in the FAQ on the FAQ and fact sheets page.	PDF (174KB)	Word version (366KB,DOCX)	1 December 2016

Specialist registration

Document name	PDF	Accessible format	Document date
Current: Podiatry registration standard for specialist registration for the podiatry specialty of podiatric surgery	PDF (40.5KB)	Word version (93.5 KB,DOCX)	24 February 2015
Advance copy – effective from 23 October 2023 Podiatry registration standard for specialist registration for the podiatry specialty of podiatric surgery For more information see the news item Read the Board’s Patient and Consumer Health and Safety Impact Assessment	PDF (74.4KB) PDF (204 KB)	Word version (173 KB,DOCX) Word version (86.0 KB, DOCX)	To take effect from 25 October 2023

Endorsement for scheduled medicines

Document name	PDF	Accessible format	Document date
Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines Additional information about this standard is available on the Endorsement for scheduled medicines page.	PDF (159KB)	Word version (95.9KB,DOCX)	1 August 2018

Retired versions

Document name	PDF	Document date
Retired version: Podiatry endorsement for scheduled medicines registration standard	PDF (228KB)	Up to 31 July 2018
Retired version: Podiatry recency of practice registration standard	PDF (227KB)	Up to 30 November 2016
Retired version: Podiatry professional indemnity insurance registration standard	PDF (334KB)	Up to 30 June 2016
Retired version: Podiatry continuing professional development registration standard	PDF (334KB)	Up to 30 November 2015
Retired version: Podiatry criminal history registration standard	PDF (334 KB)	Up to 30 June 2015
Retired version: Podiatry English language skills registration standard	PDF (337 KB)	Up to 30 June 2015