Part 2Health and Social Care Professions etc.

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care

28 Complaints about regulatory bodies

(1)

F1The Privy Council may make provision in regulations about the investigation by the F2Authority of complaints made to it about the way in which a regulatory body F3other than Social Work England has exercised any of its functions.

(2)

The regulations may, in particular, make provision as to—

(a)

who (or what description of person) is entitled to complain,

(b)

the nature of complaints which the F4Authority must (or need not) investigate,

(c)

matters which are excluded from investigation,

(d)

requirements to be complied with by a person who makes a complaint,

(e)

the procedure to be followed by the F5Authority in investigating complaints,

(f)

the making of recommendations or reports by the F5Authority following investigations,

(g)

the confidentiality, or disclosure, of any information supplied to the F5Authority or acquired by it in connection with an investigation,

(h)

the use which the F5Authority may make of any such information,

(i)

the making of payments to any persons in connection with investigations,

(j)

privilege in relation to any matter published by the F6Authority in the exercise of its functions under the regulations.

(3)

The regulations may also make provision—

(a)

empowering the F7Authority to require persons to attend before it,

(b)

empowering the F7Authority to require persons to give evidence or produce documents to it,

(c)

about the admissibility of evidence,

(d)

enabling the F8Authority to administer oaths.

(4)

No person shall be required by or by virtue of regulations under this section to give any evidence or produce any document or other material to the F9Authority which he could not be compelled to give or produce in civil proceedings before the High Court or, in Scotland, the Court of Session.