Singapore legislation

Section 38

of Nurses and Midwives Act 1999

Section 38

Powers of Complaints Committees to require attendance of witnesses, etc.

(1)

For the purposes of its investigation, a Complaints Committee may —

(a)

require any person to produce any book, document, paper or other record which may be related to the subject matter of the investigation; and

(b)

require any person to attend at a specified time and place and give evidence or produce any such book, document, paper or record.

(2)

Any person who without lawful excuse —

(a)

refuses or fails to comply with any requirement of the Complaints Committee under subsection (1); or

(b)

refuses to answer or gives a false answer to any question put to the person by a member of the Complaints Committee,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

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