Section 3Part — Health Practice Commission
Health Practice Commission
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There is established a Health Practice Commission for the following purposes —
advising the Minister on policy relating to health practice in the Islands including determining the types of health professions which should be permitted in the Islands;
providing guidance to the Councils and monitoring their performance in order to ensure consistency in their practices;
advising the Director of Planning on applications for the development of health care facilities;
the certification and inspection of health care facilities; and
such other purposes provided in this Act or as the Cabinet may, from time to time, determine.
Schedule 1 has effect with respect to the constitution and procedure of the Commission.
In carrying out its functions under this Act, the Commission may —
collaborate with such persons as it considers necessary in the collection, compilation and publication of statistics relating to the provision of health services in the Islands;
with the approval of the Cabinet, enter into arrangements with any department of the Government for the use of the personnel, facilities and services of that department to any extent not incompatible with that department’s operation; and
may act by sub-committee and may delegate any of its functions and duties, from time to time, to such sub-committees or to one or more of the members of the Commission except that where the Commission sets up a sub-committee which consists of members other than members of the Commission, it may only act or delegate its functions or duties to such sub-committee with the approval of the Cabinet.
The delegation by the Commission under subsection (3)(c) —
shall not preclude the Commission from exercising or performing at any time any of the functions or duties so delegated;
may be conditional, qualified or limited in such manner as the Commission may think fit; and
may be amended at any time by the Commission.
No publication of statistics under subsection (3) shall contain any particulars so arranged as to enable any person to identify any particulars relating to any individual person.
The Cabinet may make regulations —
requiring particulars and information to be supplied at prescribed times by persons in prescribed areas for prescribed periods; and
prescribing the type of schedules, returns and information which are to be supplied by the Commission.