Section 18Part — Health care facilities
Prohibition notices
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If, as regards any activities carried out on the premises, the inspector is of the opinion that, as carried on or likely to be carried on by or under the control of the person in question, the activities involve a risk of serious injury or harm to patients or to users of the premises, the inspector shall report the matter to the Commission or, in the case of an emergency, to the chairperson of the Commission and the Commission or the chairperson may, if it or that chairperson agrees with the report, serve on the manager of the premises a prohibition notice.
A prohibition notice shall —
set out the findings of the inspector;
specify the matters which, in the opinion of the inspector and the Commission, will give rise to the risk; and
direct that the activities to which the notice relates shall not be carried on at the premises unless the matters specified in the notice under paragraph (b) have been remedied.
A direction contained in a prohibition notice under subsection (2)(c) shall take effect —
at the end of the period specified in the notice; or
if the notice so declares, immediately.
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