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NO. 3 OF 2020


(xi) the Termination of Pregnancy Act (Cap. 324); or
(xii) the Voluntary Sterilization Act (Cap. 347);
(b) for the purpose of making a complaint or providing information—
(i) under Part V of the Allied Health Professions Act;
(ii) under Part V of the Dental Registration Act;
(iii) under Part 7 of the Medical Registration Act;
(iv) in respect of the matters in section 37(1) of the Nurses and Midwives Act;
(v) in respect of the matters in section 20(3) of the Optometrists and Opticians Act;
(vi) under Part VI of the Pharmacists Registration Act; or
(vii) under Part IVA of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Act; or
(c) for any other purpose with the consent of the person to whom the information relates or the representative of that person.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), an individual who is or was a member of a quality assurance committee appointed by a section 25 licensee is not competent or compellable—

(a) to produce before any court, tribunal, board or person any document in that individual’s possession or under that individual’s control that was created by, at the request of or solely for the purpose of, the quality assurance committee; or
(b) to disclose to any court, tribunal, board or person any information that has come to that individual’s knowledge as a member of the quality assurance committee.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a requirement made by any court, tribunal, board or person for the production of any document or the disclosure of any information in proceedings in respect of any act or omission by a quality assurance committee or by an individual as a