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OPTOMETRISTS ACT 2005 (NO. 29 OF 2005) - SECT 49

49 .         Complaints assessment committee

        (1)         The Board is to establish a committee to be known as the complaints assessment committee.

        (2)         The complaints assessment committee is to consist of the following 3 persons appointed in writing by the Board from time to time —

            (a)         an optometrist (who may be a member of the Board);

            (b)         a person who is not an optometrist and is not qualified to be registered as an optometrist;

            (c)         such other person (including an optometrist or member of the Board) as the Board considers appropriate.

        (3)         The Board is to appoint a member of the complaints assessment committee to be the committee’s chairperson.

        (4)         The complaints assessment committee is to submit an annual report to the Board as soon as is practicable after 30 June in each year in respect of the functions performed by the committee during the year that ended on that day.

        (5)         A notice or appointment authorised by this Act to be given or made by the complaints assessment committee is taken to have been given or made by the committee if it is signed on behalf of the committee —

            (a)         by the chairperson of the committee; or

            (b)         by some other person authorised by the committee to sign the notice or appointment.



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