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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

4: Complaints and discipline

75   Practitioners and complainants may request changes in membership of professional conduct committee




    75 Practitioners and complainants may request changes in membership of
professional conduct committee

  (1)  Within 5 working days after being informed of the membership or intended
membership of the
professional conduct committee that is to consider a matter about a health
practitioner, the practitioner or, in the case of a complaint, the complainant
may give the authority concerned notice---

      (a)  requesting that any or all of the members or intended members not be
appointed as, or not act as, members of that committee; and

      (b)  stating the reasons for the request.

  (2)  The authority---

      (a)  must have regard to the request; but

      (b)  need not comply with it.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 91

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