45A.—(1) Where a registrant provides, or has provided, one or more than one kind of health or social care in the State or another jurisdiction, the Council or a registration board may make a request in writing, accompanied by the relevant statement, to the body, duly authorised in the State or that jurisdiction, as appropriate, to regulate persons who provide that kind of health or social care in the State or that jurisdiction, to provide the Council or registration board, as appropriate, with any information relevant to either or both of the following:

(a) any material matter that has occurred in the State or that jurisdiction in relation to the registrant;

(b) the registrant’s qualifications, or registration (or equivalent thereof in that jurisdiction), as a person who provides that kind of health or social care.

(2) In subsection (1) —

"registrant" includes a person who has made an application under section 37 for registration which has not yet been determined by the registration board concerned;

"relevant statement", in relation to a request under subsection (1), means a statement to the effect that any information provided to the Council or registration board, pursuant to that request, by the body to which the request is made may be used in any proceedings under this Act concerning the registrant the subject of the request.]