Australian Capital Territory
Health (Clinical Review Committee) (Mental Health ACT) Approved Public Sector Quality Assurance Committee Declaration 2004 (No 1)*
Notifiable instrument NI2004—462
made under the 

Health Act 1993, s 8(1) Approval of public sector committees

I revoke the declaration made on 19 October 2002 and notified on the Legislation Register NI2002-328 on 25 October 2002 that established the Clinical Incident Review Committee at Mental Health ACT to be an approved committee.

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 the Territory, 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recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to whether those clinical privileges should be preserved, varied or withdrawn.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 Clinical Review Committee to be established as an approved public sector quality assurance committee at Mental Health ACT for the purposes of section 8 (2) (a).

Simon Corbell MLA
Minister for Health 
7 December 2004