28Chairpersons to notify proprietors

28 Chairpersons to notify proprietors (1) On receipt by a Panel of: (a) a direction under regulation 26; or (b) a reference under regulation 27; in respect of a nursing home, the Chairperson must, as soon as practicable, inform the proprietor by notice in writing that the Panel will perform its functions in relation to the direction or reference. (2) A notice given under subregulation (1) must include statements to the following effect: (a) that the proprietor may, within 21 days of being given the notice, give the Panel documents or other material to which it must have regard in the performance of its functions in respect of the nursing home; and (b) that the proprietor will have the opportunity: (i) to inspect any other document or material to which the Panel proposes to have regard in reaching a decision; and (ii) to make submissions in relation to the other document or material. (3) If, at the end of the period referred to in paragraph (2) (a), a proprietor has not given a Panel a document or other material referred to in that paragraph, the Panel may proceed in respect of the nursing home in accordance with this Part.