Article 7 Amendment of the Health Professions Council (Conduct and Competence Committee) (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 2003I1

United Kingdom

(1)

The Schedule to the Health Professions Council (Conduct and Competence Committee) (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 2003^f1 (the Health Professions Council (Conduct and Competence Committee) (Procedure) Rules 2003) is amended as follows.

(2)

In rule 2 (interpretation)—

(a)

omit the definition of “health professional”,

(b)

in the definition of “the Order”, for “Health Professions Order 2001” substitute “Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001”,

(c)

in the definition of “Presenting Officer”, for “health professional” substitute “registrant”, and

(d)

after the definition of “Presenting Officer” insert—

““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.”.

(3)

In each of the following rules, in each place where it occurs (including the heading to rule 11), for “health professional”, “health professional’s” or “health professionals” substitute respectively “registrant”, “registrant’s” or “registrants”—

(a)

rule 3 (service of documents),

(b)

rule 4 (referral to Health Committee),

(c)

rule 5 (allegations),

(d)

rule 6 (hearings),

(e)

rule 8 (further investigations),

(f)

rule 9 (compliance with standards),

(g)

rule 10 (conduct of hearing),

(h)

rule 10A (vulnerable witnesses),

(i)

rule 11 (absence of the health professional),

(j)

rule 12 (disposal of cases).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 7 in force at 1.8.2012, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2003/1575; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/1625, 1182 and 1355. S.I. 2009/1182 inserted new sub-paragraphs (da) and (db) into rule 10(1), but the amendment was to come into force on the coming into force of section 44(1) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c. 47). That provision has never come into force and is to be repealed by section 75(6) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9).