Australian Capital Territory
Health (Community Care Quality Committee) Quality Assurance Committee Declaration 2003*
Notifiable instrument NI2003— 257
made under the Health Act 1993, s 8(1) Approval of public sector committees

Section 8 (1) The Minister may, in writing, declare that a stated committee is
established as an approved public sector quality assurance committee for a health facility or for a stated purpose.

Section 8(2) A committee mentioned in subsection (1) may have all or any of the
following functions decided by the Minister:
(a) to conduct quality assurance activities among health service providers for the purpose of assessing and evaluating the health services provided by or arranged to be provided by the Territory or a Territory authority, to report, and make recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to those services and to monitor the implementation of those
recommendations;
(b) to conduct research or investigations into morbidity and mortality in the ACT and to report, and make recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to that
research or those investigations;
(c) to investigate, assess, review and evaluate the clinical privileges provided to health service providers and to report, and make recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to whether those clinical privileges should be preserved, varied or withdrawn.

I declare the Community Care Quality Committee to be an approved public sector quality assurance committee for the purposes of section 8 (2) (b).

Simon Corbell MLA
Minister for Health 
17 June 2003