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The Commissioner for Complaints (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (revoked)

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Independent providers of health and [F1social care] subject to investigationF3N.I.

8A.—(1) This Article applies to persons if—

(a)they are persons (whether individuals or bodies) providing services (of any kind) under arrangements with health and [F1social care] bodies or general [F2health care] providers; and

(b)they are not themselves health and [F1social care] bodies or general [F2health care] providers.

(2) In this Order references to an independent provider are to any person to whom this Article applies.

(3) Where an independent provider has made an arrangement with a health and [F1social care] body or a general [F2health care] provider to provide a service, the Commissioner may, subject to the provisions of this Order, investigate any action taken in relation to the service by—

(a)the independent provider;

(b)a person employed by the independent provider;

(c)a person acting on behalf of the independent provider; or

(d)a person to whom the independent provider has delegated any functions.

(4) The Commissioner may investigate any action taken as mentioned in paragraph (3) only if a complaint is made to the Commissioner in accordance with this Order by a person who claims to have sustained injustice in consequence of maladministration in connection with the action so taken with a request to conduct an investigation into it.

(5) Nothing in this Order authorises or requires the Commissioner to question the merits of a decision taken without maladministration by—

(a)an independent provider;

(b)a person employed by an independent provider;

(c)a person acting on behalf of an independent provider; or

(d)a person to whom an independent provider has delegated any functions.

(6) Paragraph (5) does not apply to the merits of a decision to the extent that it was taken in consequence of the exercise of clinical judgment.

F3functions transfered by SR 1999/481

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