Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022

Amendment of section 40C of Principal Act

37. Section 40C of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):

“(1A) The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, in relation to the performance by the Executive of its specialist community-based disability services functions, may, where he or she considers it necessary in the public interest to do so for the performance of his or her functions (whether under this Act or otherwise), require the Executive to furnish him or her with such information or documents as he or she may specify that are in the Executive’s procurement, possession or control, and the Executive shall do so within any period that that Minister may specify and, in any event, without delay.”,

(b) in subsection (2), by the insertion of “or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth” after “the Minister”,

(c) in subsection (3), by the insertion of “or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth” after “the Minister”, and

(d) in subsection (4)(a), by the insertion of “or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth” after “the Minister”.