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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012-consequential-provisionsocial-workers-order-2012/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1479",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012-consequential-provisionsocial-workers-order-2012",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Health Professions Council (Investigating Committee) Procedure Rules Order of Council 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Schedule to the Health Professions Council (Investigating Committee) Procedure Rules Order of Council 2003 (the Health Professions Council (Investigating Committee) (Procedure) Rules 2003) is amended as follows.\n(2) In rule 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) omit the definition of “health professional”,\n(b) in the definition of “the Order”, for “Health Professions Order 2001” substitute “Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001”,\n(c) in both paragraphs of the definition of “Presenting Officer”, for “health professional” substitute “registrant”, and\n(d) after the definition of “register entry allegation” insert—\n““registrant” means a person whose name appears in the register against whom an allegation has been made, and includes a person whose registration is currently suspended;”.\n(3) In each of the following rules, in each place where it occurs (including the heading to rule 9), for “health professional”, “health professional’s” or “health professionals” substitute respectively “registrant”, “registrant’s” or “registrants”—\n(a) rule 3 (service of documents),\n(b) rule 4 (investigation of allegations),\n(c) rule 5 (notice of register entry allegation),\n(d) rule 6 (register entry allegations–procedure),\n(e) rule 8 (conduct of hearing),\n(f) rule 8A (vulnerable witnesses), and\n(g) rule 9 (absence of the health professional).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.8.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1574; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/1625 and 2009/1355."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1479/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:25.440825+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."
}