New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 171F

171F Statement need not contain confidential information [NSW]

(1) A Committee is not required to include confidential information in a statement of a decision given to a person.

(2) If the statement would be false or misleading if it did not include the confidential information, the Committee is not required to provide the statement.

(3) If confidential information is not included in the statement of a decision given to a person, or a statement is not given to a person because of subsection (2), the Committee must give the person a confidential information notice.

(4) A confidential information notice must be given within one month of the decision.

(5) This section does not affect the power of a court to make an order for the discovery of documents or to require the giving of evidence or the production of documents to a court, subject to the provisions of this Law relating to protected reports.