New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OPTICAL DISPENSERS ACT 1963 - SECT 25A

25A Notification of complaints to, and their investigation by, the Commission

(1) The board must notify the Commission of any complaint made to it concerning the carrying out of optical dispensing by an optical dispenser. The complaint is to be notified as soon as practicable after the complaint is made.

(2) The board may, instead of making inquiry under section 25, refer the matter that would otherwise be the subject of inquiry for investigation by the Commission under the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .

(3) Such an investigation by the Commission is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be an inquiry made by the board but does not prevent the board from making any further or additional inquiry.