s 60 Interim Orders Committee
60.—(1) The Council may from time to time appoint one or more committees each comprising —(a) 2 of its members of whom one is to be appointed the chairperson; and (b) one registered allied health professional who has practised for at least 10 years in the same prescribed allied health profession as that which the registered allied health professional being complained against is registered in, to be known for the purposes of this Act as Interim Orders Committees, to inquire into any matter referred by the Council under subsection (3). (2) An Interim Orders Committee may be appointed in connection with one or more matters or for a fixed period of time. (3) The Chairperson of the Complaints Panel, or a Complaints Committee, Disciplinary Tribunal or Health Committee may refer any complaint or information to the Council for the purpose of determining if an order should be made under section 61(1), and the Council must refer the complaint or information to an Interim Orders Committee for this purpose. (4) The Chairperson of the Complaints Panel, or a member of a Complaints Committee, a Disciplinary Tribunal or a Health Committee (as the case may be), inquiring into any matter must not be a member of an Interim Orders Committee inquiring into or reviewing the same matter. (5) A member of an Interim Orders Committee inquiring into or reviewing any matter must not be a member of a Complaints Committee, Health Committee or Disciplinary Tribunal inquiring into the same matter, or take part in any deliberation of the Council under section 58 in respect of the same matter. (6) All members of an Interim Orders Committee must vote on any question arising at a meeting of the Interim Orders Committee and that question is to be determined by a majority of votes. (7) A member of an Interim Orders Committee which has commenced any inquiry or review of any case or matter, despite having ceased to be a member of the Council on the expiry of his or her term of office, continues to be a member of the Interim Orders Committee until completion of that inquiry or review. (8) Sections 50(11), (12), (13) and (14)(a) and 51(1), (4) to (8) and (11) apply, with the necessary modifications, to an Interim Orders Committee and to proceedings before it as they apply to a Disciplinary Tribunal and to proceedings before a Disciplinary Tribunal.