Health Complaints Act 1995
21Approval of Charter
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21 Approval of Charter
(1) The Health Minister may approve, in writing, a draft Charter or a variation of the Charter.
(2) After approving a draft Charter or a variation of the Charter, the Health Minister must lay the draft Charter or variation on the table of each House of Parliament.
(3) A House of Parliament is taken to have approved a draft Charter or variation of the Charter if –
(a) the draft Charter or variation is approved by the House; or
(b) at the expiration of 5 sitting days after the draft Charter or variation was laid on the table of the House, there was no notice of a motion to disapprove it before the House; or
(c) at the expiration of that 5 day period such a notice was before the House, the notice is later withdrawn or the motion is later negatived.
(4) A House of Parliament may request the Health Minister to amend a draft Charter or variation of the Charter.
(5) If the Health Minister agrees to the request of a House of Parliament to amend a draft Charter or variation of the Charter, the Health Minister must withdraw the draft Charter or variation from both Houses of Parliament and lay the amended draft Charter or amended variation on the table of each House of Parliament.
(6) On the approval by both Houses of Parliament of a draft Charter or variation of the Charter, the draft Charter becomes the Charter or the Charter is varied as approved, whichever the case requires.