{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2841",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to nominate or appoint responsible officers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, every designated body must nominate or appoint a responsible officer.\n(2) NHS England , the Department of Health and Social Care and the General Council must nominate or appoint a sufficient number of responsible officers.\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) When a responsible officer nominated or appointed in accordance with paragraphs (1) or (2) ceases to hold that position, subject to paragraph (4), the designated body must nominate or appoint a replacement as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(4) When a responsible officer nominated or appointed in accordance with paragraph (2) ceases to hold that position, the designated body is not required to nominate or appoint a replacement if, in its opinion, there remains a sufficient number of responsible officers appointed or nominated under that paragraph.\n(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), a body listed in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations which is a designated body by virtue of regulation 4(3) is not required to nominate or appoint a responsible officer if, and for so long as, there is no prescribed connection under regulation 10 between that body and any medical practitioner.\n(6) Paragraph (5) does not apply where a medical practitioner would have, but for the application of regulation 12, a prescribed connection with a designated body under regulation 10.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/391), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/221), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2A) omitted (1.4.2023) by virtue of The Health Education England (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/368), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(a) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(3) substituted (1.4.2023) by virtue of The Health Education England (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/368), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(b) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(4) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/221), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 5(4A) omitted (1.4.2023) by virtue of The Health Education England (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/368), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(a) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.1.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2841/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:12.611008+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."
}