Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW)
171AProcedure for inquiry [NSW]
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171A Procedure for inquiry [NSW]
171A Procedure for inquiry [NSW]
(1) Subject to this section, the Committee may conduct proceedings on the inquiry as it thinks fit.
(2) Proceedings of the Committee are to be open to the public unless the Committee directs otherwise.
(3) The Committee is not to direct that proceedings are to be closed to the public unless satisfied it is desirable to do so in the public interest because of—
(a) the subject-matter of the inquiry; or
(b) the nature of the evidence to be given.
(4) The Committee may be assisted by an Australian lawyer appointed, at the request of the Committee, by the Executive Officer of the Council.