Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 1996 (Version in vigour from 1999-10-01 to )
Currency | No known outstanding effects |
Coming into Force | 01 October 1999 |
- “(1A) Where a family health service provider has undertaken to provide any family health services and a complaint is duly made to a Commissioner by or on behalf of a person that he has sustained injustice or hardship in consequence of—
- (a) action taken by the family health service provider in connection with the services,
- (b) action taken in connection with the services by a person employed by the family health service provider in respect of the services,
- (c) action taken in connection with the services by a person acting on behalf of the family health service provider in respect of the services, or
- (d) action taken in connection with the services by a person to whom the family health service provider has delegated any functions in respect of the services, the Commissioner may, subject to the provisions of this Act, investigate the alleged action.
- “(5) Nothing in this Act authorises or requires a Commissioner to question the merits of a decision taken without maladministration by—
- (a) a family health service provider,
- (b) a person employed by a family health service provider,
- (c) a person acting on behalf of a family health service provider, or
- (d) a person to whom a family health service provider has delegated any functions.
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- (e) the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- “(4) Subsection (5) applies where—
- (a) action by reference to which a complaint is made under section 3(1) , (1A) or (1C) is action by reference to which a complaint can be made under a procedure operated by a health service body, a family health service provider or an independent provider, and
- (b) subsection (1) , (2) or (3) does not apply as regards the action.
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