(1) This section applies if the commission considers that a complaint about a health service indicates that a registered health professional may be contravening, or may have contravened, the required standard of practice, or does not satisfy the suitability to practise requirements, under the Health Professionals Act 2004 .
(2) The commission must give the health profession board a copy of—
(a) the complaint; and
(b) all documents it has or gets relating to the complaint.
(3) To remove any doubt, the referral of a complaint to the health profession board does not prevent the commission from considering the complaint.