Paragraph 10 Removal from the register
Where, following a notice of final warning sent in accordance with rule 9(3), the summary form—
is not received before the end of the period specified in that notice, or
is received but is not completed in accordance with rule 9(2),
the Registrar may remove the osteopath’s name from the register.
Where the osteopath delivers the summary form duly completed but the Registrar is not satisfied from the information contained in it or otherwise that the osteopath has complied with the CPD requirement in respect of a particular CPD period, he shall send a notice to the osteopath which shall—
include a statement of the reasons why he is not satisfied that the osteopath has complied with the CPD requirement; and
invite the osteopath to submit written representations on the matter by the date specified in the notice, and the date so specified must be after the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the Registrar sent the notice to the osteopath.
Where, after considering any written representations submitted by the osteopath pursuant to paragraph (2)(b), the Registrar is not satisfied the osteopath has complied with the CPD requirement, the Registrar may—
remove the osteopath’s name from the register; or
require the osteopath—
to complete a further amount of CPD within a specified period (in this rule and in rule 11(3)(a) referred to as “further CPD hours”), and
to complete in relation to the further CPD hours a summary form, which the Registrar shall send to the osteopath for the purpose, and which shall require the provision of the information specified in rule 9(2).
Where the Registrar has made a decision under paragraph (3)(b) to require an osteopath to complete further CPD hours, the osteopath shall deliver the completed summary form to the Registrar before the end of the period specified in the decision, and if—
the osteopath fails to do so, or
the Registrar is not satisfied that the osteopath has completed the further CPD hours,
the Registrar may remove the osteopath’s name from the register.
Where the Registrar makes a decision under paragraph (1), (3) or (4), he shall notify the osteopath in writing of the decision and the reasons for it and (except in the case of a decision under paragraph (3)(b)) of his right to appeal against it under rule 12.
A decision by the Registrar under paragraph (1), (3)(a) or (4) shall take effect on the day when the period specified in rule 12(a) expires or, where there is an appeal by the osteopath, on the withdrawal or dismissal of the appeal.