Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

4: Complaints and discipline

73 Committees may appoint legal advisers and investigators




    73 Committees may appoint legal advisers and investigators

  (1)  A professional conduct committee may appoint a legal adviser approved by
the authority to advise the committee on matters of law, procedure, or
evidence.

  (2)  A professional conduct committee may appoint an investigator to collect
information required by the committee and to investigate complaints.

  (3)  A person appointed under this section must not be present during the
deliberations of the committee.

  (4)  The legal adviser may not, under section 91(5), represent the committee
before the Tribunal at the hearing of a charge if the adviser assisted the
committee in the investigation that led to the charge.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 89(2), (3)

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