{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/section-60A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/section-60A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/8",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999",
  "path": "section/60A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60A",
  "heading": "Standard of proof in fitness to practise proceedings",
  "text": "(1) The standard of proof applicable to any proceedings to which this subsection applies is that applicable to civil proceedings.\n(2) Subsection (1) applies to any proceedings before—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) a committee of a regulatory body, a regulatory body itself or any officer of a regulatory body,\nwhich relate to a matter specified in subsection (2A).\n(2A) The matters are—\n(a) a person's fitness to practise a profession to which section 60(2) applies;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) a person's suitability to remain registered as a social care worker in England (within the meaning given by section 60).\n(3) In subsection (2) “regulatory body” means the body (or main body) responsible for the regulation of a profession to which section 60(2) applies ... .\n(4) An Order in Council under section 60 may not—\n(a) amend this section, or\n(b) make any provision that is inconsistent with subsection (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 60A inserted (3.11.2008 for specified purposes) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 112, 170(3); S.I. 2008/2717, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 60A(2)(a) and following word omitted (1.7.2012) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 15 para. 72(5); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 60A(2) substituted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 209(11), 306(4) (with s. 230(6)); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 60A(2A) inserted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 209(12), 306(4) (with s. 230(6)); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 60A(2A)(b) omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), ss. 61(3)(a), 70(2); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 60A(2A)(c) substituted (2.12.2019) by Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), ss. 61(3)(b), 70(2); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 60A(3) omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), ss. 61(3)(c), 70(2); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/8/section/60A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:03.793953+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}