s 52 Performance assessment
52.—(1) If a registered medical practitioner consents to undergo a performance assessment under section 50(3)(a), the quality of professional services provided by the registered medical practitioner must be assessed by a Performance Assessment Panel appointed by the relevant Complaints Committee and comprising one or more suitably qualified persons determined by the relevant Complaints Committee. (2) A Performance Assessment Panel is to carry out the performance assessment in accordance with —(a) the provisions of this Division; (b) any practice and procedure determined by the Medical Council for performance assessments; and (c) any instructions issued by the relevant Complaints Committee for the performance assessment. (3) The registered medical practitioner under assessment must, if required by a Performance Assessment Panel —(a) within such time and at such place as the Panel may reasonably require, produce to the Panel or give the Panel access to any record or document —(i) specified by the Panel or of a class or description so specified; (ii) which is in the possession or under the control of the registered medical practitioner; and (iii) which the Panel reasonably believes is or may be relevant to the performance assessment; (b) give the Panel such explanation or further particulars in respect of anything produced in compliance with a requirement under paragraph (a) as the Panel may specify; and (c) give the Panel all assistance in connection with the performance assessment which the registered medical practitioner is reasonably able to give. (4) Where any information or matter relevant to a performance assessment is recorded otherwise than in a legible form, the Performance Assessment Panel may require the registered medical practitioner to produce to the Panel a reproduction of such information or matter, or the relevant part of the information or matter, in a legible form. (5) A Performance Assessment Panel may inspect, examine or make copies of or take any abstract of or extract from any record or document produced under subsection (3) or (4). (6) A Performance Assessment Panel must submit a report of its assessment to the relevant Complaints Committee and, with the approval of the relevant Complaints Committee, the registered medical practitioner. (7) The relevant Complaints Committee, or the investigator with the approval of the relevant Complaints Committee, may discuss with the registered medical practitioner under assessment the report mentioned in subsection (6) and, in the case of an adverse finding in the report, the possible ways of dealing with that finding. (8) If, at any time before the report mentioned in subsection (6) is submitted to the relevant Complaints Committee —(a) the relevant Complaints Committee instructs the discontinuation of the performance assessment; or (b) the relevant Complaints Committee completes its inquiry, the performance assessment is discontinued from the date paragraph (a) or (b) occurs, whichever is earlier. [Act 34 of 2020 wef 01/07/2022]