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The Local Authority (Overview and Scrutiny Committees Health Scrutiny Functions) Regulations 2002

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6.—(1) Subject to any directions issued under regulation 10, an overview and scrutiny committee may require an officer of a local NHS body to attend before the committee to answer such questions as appear to the committee to be necessary for discharging its functions.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), it is the duty of any such officer to comply with any such requirement.

(3) The overview and scrutiny committee may not require a person to attend in accordance with paragraph (1) unless reasonable notice of the intended date of attendance has been given to that person.

(4) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require any person to answer any question put to him by the overview and scrutiny committee—

(a)to the extent that the answer requires the provision of information of a type specified in regulation 5(3) (unless within an exception under regulation 5(4) or (5)); or

(b)if he would be entitled to refuse to answer in, or for the purposes of, proceedings in a court in England and Wales.

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