New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POISONS AND THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1966 - SECT 30AA

30AA Power of Medical Committee to obtain information

(1) This section applies if:

(a) under section 28A (8) or 29 (8) the Director-General refers an approval or an authority to the Medical Committee for review, and

(b) the review of the approval or authority is with respect to a possible contravention of this Act or the regulations, or a failure to comply with any conditions to which the approval or authority is subject.

(2) For the purposes of conducting the review and preparing its report and the recommendation, the Medical Committee may require the Health Care Complaints Commission, New South Wales Medical Board or Nurses and Midwives Board to provide the Medical Committee with any information in the Commission’s or Board’s possession that is relevant to the Medical Committee’s review.

(3) A requirement made by the Medical Committee under this section must be made in writing.

(4) The Health Care Complaints Commission, New South Wales Medical Board or Nurses and Midwives Board must comply with any reasonable requirement given to the Commission or Board under this section.

(5) This section applies despite any provision of:

(a) the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 , or

(b) the Medical Practice Act 1992 , including section 190B of that Act, or

(c) the Nurses and Midwives Act 1991 .

(6) In this section:
"Nurses and Midwives Board" means the Nurses and Midwives Board constituted under section 8 of the Nurses and Midwives Act 1991 .