PART 4HEALTH SCRUTINY BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES
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Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), it is the duty of any such member or employee to comply with any such requirement.
3
The local authority 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) requires any person to answer any question put to that person by the local authority—
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b
if that person would be entitled to refuse to answer in, or for the purposes of, proceedings in a court in England and Wales.
5
A local authority may not require a member or employee of a responsible person to attend before it to answer questions in relation to—
a
a trust special administrator’s report or draft report under sections 65F or 65I of the 2006 Act;
b
a health special administration order under section 128 of the 2012 Act, or recommendations by a health special administrator on the action which should be taken in relation to a company subject to such an order.