New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 179

179 Committee must refer certain matters to the Tribunal

(1) A Committee must immediately terminate an inquiry if before or during the inquiry the Committee:

(a) forms the opinion that the complaint, if substantiated, may provide grounds for the suspension or deregistration of a registered medical practitioner, or

(b) becomes aware that the Board or the Commission has referred the complaint or another complaint about the practitioner concerned to the Tribunal.

(2) Subsection (1) (a) does not apply to a complaint that the Board decided not to refer to the Tribunal because the allegations on which it and any other pending complaint against the practitioner was founded related solely or principally to the practitioner's physical or mental capacity to practise medicine.

(3) When the Committee terminates an inquiry, it must refer the complaint to the Tribunal unless it has already been referred to the Tribunal.

(4) The Tribunal to which the complaint is referred may be the Tribunal as already constituted to deal with another complaint or the Tribunal as constituted to deal with the referred complaint.

(5) A Committee is to inform the Board when it takes any action under this section.