Private Health Facilities Act 2007

If the Chairperson or any other member of a Committee of Review has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in the subject-matter of an application for review, the Chairperson or other member must, as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to his or her knowledge, disclose the nature of the interest to the Minister.

After the Chairperson has disclosed the nature of an interest in the subject-matter of an application for review—

the Chairperson must not, unless the Minister otherwise determines, act as Chairperson of the Committee of Review to which that application is referred, and

the deputy of the Chairperson is to act as Chairperson of that Committee.

The deputy of the Chairperson, while acting as Chairperson under subclause (2), has all the functions of the Chairperson and is taken to be the Chairperson.

After a member of a Committee of Review (other than the Chairperson) has disclosed the nature of an interest in the subject-matter of an application for review—

the member must not, unless the Minister otherwise determines, act as a member of the Committee of Review, and

the Chairperson is to appoint another person to be a member of that Committee.

A contravention of this clause does not invalidate any recommendation of the Committee of Review or any recommendation of the Chairperson or the member (as the case may require).