1st Session, 43rd Legislature

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Bill 36

THE REGULATED HEALTH PROFESSIONS AMENDMENT ACT

(Assented to                                         )

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. R117 amended

1   The Regulated Health Professions Act is amended by this Act.

2   The following is added after subsection 48(3):

Meeting open to public

48(4)   The council must ensure that it considers a matter under subsection (3) at a meeting that is open to the public.

Exception

48(5)   The council may consider the matter in a meeting that is not open to the public if the council determines that

(a) matters involving public security may be disclosed;

(b) financial, personal or other matters may be disclosed that are of such a nature that the desirability of avoiding public disclosure of those matters outweighs the desirability of adhering to the principle that meetings be open to the public;

(c) a person involved in a civil or criminal proceeding may be prejudiced; or

(d) a person's safety may be jeopardized.

But the council must ensure that the reasons for not holding a public meeting are given orally at the meeting and are made available to the public in writing.

Non-application

48(6)   For certainty, the exception in clause 25(5)(a) related to a private meeting does not apply to a meeting held under this section.

3   Subsection 219(1) is amended by adding the following after clause (k) and before the centred heading that follows it:

(k.1) specifying persons to whom notice must be given of the cancellation of registration or a certificate of practice;

4   Clause 221(1)(m) is repealed.

Coming into force

5   This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.