Singapore legislation
Regulation 26
of Allied Health Professions (Professional Conduct and Discipline) Regulations 2013
Regulation 26
Invitation to submit to medical examination
Subregulation 1
Where a complaint or information is referred to a Health Committee under section 41(2)(a), 49(2)(a) or 52(1) of the Act, the chairperson of the Health Committee may send a written notice to the registered allied health professional —
inviting him or her to agree, within 14 days after receiving the notice, to an examination by at least 2 registered medical practitioners to be appointed by the Health Committee and to agree that they should furnish to the Health Committee reports on his or her fitness to practise; or
if the information received by the Health Committee includes reports on the registered allied health professional by other medical practitioners who have recently examined him or her and it appears to the Health Committee that the reports afford sufficient medical evidence that the registered allied health professional’s fitness to practise may be impaired by reason of a physical or mental condition, informing him or her of the foregoing.
Subregulation 2
The Health Committee must, in the notice mentioned in paragraph (1) —
inform the registered allied health professional that he or she may nominate not more than 2 other registered medical practitioners to examine him or her and report to the Health Committee on his or her fitness to practise at his or her own expense; and
invite the registered allied health professional to submit any observations or other evidence which he or she may wish to offer as to his or her own fitness to practise.
Subregulation 3
The Health Committee may, as soon as practicable, proceed with its inquiry and make such order as it thinks fit under section 58 of the Act, if the registered allied health professional —
refuses to be examined;
having agreed to a medical examination, subsequently fails to submit to the medical examination when it has been arranged by the Health Committee or, in the case of a medical examination by a medical practitioner nominated under paragraph (2)(a), within 30 days after the despatch of the notice mentioned in paragraph (1) (or such further period as the Health Committee may allow); or
does not reply within 14 days after the despatch of the notice mentioned in paragraph (1) (or such further period as the Health Committee may allow).
Subregulation 4
The chairperson of the Health Committee must forward to the registered allied health professional, together with the notice mentioned in paragraph (1), copies of any complaint or information and of any statutory declaration or affidavit made in support of the complaint or information.