Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

97

F161[Investigations

97.(1) The Council shall, at the request of the Minister, or may, of its own initiative or upon a complaint made by a member of the public, investigate any case of an individual who, not being a registrant of a designated profession, is suspected of being guilty of an offence under this Act.

(2) Where the Council has carried out an investigation under subsection (1), the Council may, if it has reasonable grounds to believe that the individual the subject of the investigation is or has been guilty of an offence under this Act, seek an injunction in the Court requiring the person to cease the activities the Council reasonably believes to be in contravention of this Act.]

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F161

Inserted (31.12.2014) by Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (33/2014), s. 38, S.I. No. 588 of 2014.