Maintain your registration

A CPD unit is one hour of continuing professional development activity approved under regulation.

A CPD year is from 1 April to 31 March in the following year.

A CPD activity must be:

• an activity identified as a CPD activity in the Continuing Professional Development for Adjudicators Policy
• another activity the Registrar considers to be equivalent.

You may apply for consideration of another activity by completing the Consideration of Equivalent CPD Activity for Adjudicators form and submitting it to the Registrar.

CPD activities may consist of:

• courses, seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences, discussion groups, multimedia or web-based program (in person or online)
• preparation and delivery of a lecture at seminars, conferences or courses
• preparation and publication of paper or case update in law, academic or industry publication
• satisfactory completion of subjects or modules within relevant undergraduate or postgraduate courses or units of study from a professional body
• subscriptions to a professional journal or publication that is relevant to adjudication
• completion of a unit of CPD with a professional association that is relevant to adjudication work.

A CPD activity may also be another activity the Registrar considers to be equivalent to a CPD activity identified in the Continuing Professional Development for Adjudicators Policy.

An adjudicator can request that an activity be considered by the registrar as equivalent by using the:

•  Consideration of equivalence CPD activity form (PDF, 39.9KB). 

For any activity the Registrar considers to be equivalent, to an activity identified in this policy, the Registrar will allow the adjudicator to accumulate the same number of CPD points. The registrar may, by written notice, require the adjudicator to give the registrar further information about the CPD activities. If an adjudicator does not comply with the notice, the adjudicator is taken to have failed to comply with the requirement to accumulate CPD points.

The Registrar has made available an option of other activities considered to be equivalent:

• Approved activity—private study with the maintenance of a “reflection journal” of some sort that would record the subject matter of each reading and your reflections on particular matters of importance or interest to you
• Equivalent to—courses, seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences, discussion groups, multimedia or web-based program (in person or online)
• CPD points—1 CPD point/hour