PART 15SUPPLEMENTARY

Other supplementary provision

300Medical practitioners who may make certain medical reports

1

In this section a “medical report” means—

a

a report under section 39;

b

a report under section 183;

c

a medical report under paragraph 7 of Schedule 1;

d

a medical report under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2;

e

a medical report under paragraph 5 of Schedule 3;

f

a medical report under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6.

2

Regulations may make provision prescribing the descriptions of medical practitioners who may make medical reports.

3

The regulations may in particular do any of the following—

a

prescribe conditions that must be met by a medical practitioner making a medical report;

b

provide that, except in any prescribed circumstances, the medical practitioner who makes a medical report—

i

must be of a prescribed description; or

ii

must not be of a prescribed description.

4

Where any provision of this Act confers power to prescribe conditions that must be met by a medical practitioner making a report or certifying any matter, a condition that may be prescribed is that the practitioner is a person approved by RQIA for prescribed purposes.