Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

6: Structures and administration

125 Minister may require authority to respond to concerns following audit




    125 Minister may require authority to respond to concerns following audit

  (1)  If, after consideration of an auditor's report completed under section
124 about an authority, the Minister has concerns about any of the
authority's policies or practices, the Minister may, by written notice to
the authority,---

      (a)  set out the concerns and the reasons for them; and

      (b)  require the authority to provide the Minister with a written
response within the time specified in the notice or within any extended time
the
Minister allows.

  (2)  The response must state, in respect of each concern set out in the
Minister's notice, whether the authority considers that the
concern---

      (a)  is justified; or

      (b)  is justified in part; or

      (c)  is not justified.

  (3)  If the response states, in respect of any concern, that the authority
accepts that the concern is justified or is justified in part, the response
must also provide information on---

      (a)  the steps that the authority has taken or is taking or proposes to
take to address the concern or, as the case may require, the part of the
concern;
and

      (b)  the time in which those steps have been, or are to be, taken.

  (4)  If the response states, in respect of any concern, that the authority
does not consider that the concern is justified or is justified only in part,
the
response must set out the authority's reasons for that statement.

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