New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 147B

147B How complaints are dealt with [NSW]

(1) If a complaint is referred to a Committee, the Committee must investigate the complaint.

(2) A Committee may obtain the medical, legal, financial or other advice it thinks necessary or desirable to enable it to exercise its functions.

(3) Advice obtained by a Committee under subsection (2) may not, unless otherwise ordered by the Council, be admitted or used in civil proceedings before a court and a person may not be compelled to produce the advice or to give evidence in relation to the advice in civil proceedings.