15DReferral of request to a Nursing Homes Advisory Committee

15D Referral of request to a Nursing Homes Advisory Committee

(1) Where a request for a review has not been withdrawn under section 15B, the Minister must, not earlier than the end of the period of 42 days after the last day on which such a request could have been made, refer the matter to the appropriate Nursing Homes Advisory Committee in accordance with the agreement under section 15. (2) The Minister must not refer the matter to the Committee unless the proprietor has provided the Minister with: (a) a statement setting out fully and in detail the reasons for the request; and (b) a copy of such accounts, books, documents and records as are relevant to the review of the decision by the Minister; and (c) such information or documents as the Minister specifies under subsection (3). (3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, specify information or documents that are to be provided to the Minister for the purposes of a review. (4) The Minister may, by notice in writing given to the proprietor, require the proprietor to supply to the Minister such further information or documents as the Minister considers necessary for the purpose of deciding the request and the Minister may refuse to refer the matter to the Committee until that information or those documents, as the case requires, are supplied to the Minister.