Singapore legislation
Regulation 14
Regulation 14
Psychiatrist’s duty to inform subjects of revocation proceedings
Subregulation 1
When a psychiatrist is notified under rule 11(5)(a) that the Selection Committee is considering whether to revoke his or her appointment as a member of the Panel, the psychiatrist must inform each of his or her subjects that —
there are pending revocation proceedings against the psychiatrist;
once the revocation of the psychiatrist’s appointment takes effect, the psychiatrist will cease to be able to give his or her opinion on any matter concerning psychiatry (when given as the opinion of an expert) in any criminal proceedings in Singapore;
until the revocation of the psychiatrist’s appointment takes effect, the psychiatrist may still give his or her opinion on any matter concerning psychiatry (when given as the opinion of an expert) in any criminal proceedings in Singapore; and
if the revocation of the psychiatrist’s appointment takes effect after the psychiatrist has given his or her opinion on any matter concerning psychiatry (as the opinion of an expert) in any criminal proceedings in Singapore, the court hearing those proceedings may determine the weight to be given to the psychiatrist’s evidence, after considering all the circumstances of the case.
Subregulation 2
A psychiatrist who has been notified under rule 11(12)(b) that the Selection Committee has revoked his or her appointment as a member of the Panel must inform each of the psychiatrist’s subjects of the revocation.
Subregulation 3
In this rule, “subject”, in relation to a psychiatrist, means a person in relation to whom a psychiatrist has been, or is sought to be, engaged to provide an opinion on any matter concerning psychiatry for the purpose of adducing evidence in any criminal proceedings in Singapore.