New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ACT 1982 - SECT 20E

20E Approved quality assurance committees

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that a specified committee established by a prescribed establishment is an approved quality assurance committee for the purposes of this Division.

(2) The Minister is not to make such a declaration unless the Minister is satisfied that:

(a) the committee is established by or within a prescribed establishment in accordance with the rules or official procedures of the establishment, and

(b) its functions are to assess and evaluate services provided by one or more prescribed establishments (whether or not provided by the establishment which established the committee), to report and make recommendations concerning those services and to monitor the implementation of its recommendations, and

(c) the committee comprises individuals with training and experience appropriate to the services to be assessed and evaluated by the committee, and

(d) the exercise of those functions would be facilitated by the provision of immunities and protections afforded by this Division, and

(e) it is in the public interest to restrict the disclosure of information compiled by the committee in the course of the exercise of those functions.