Regulation 8 Removal of returning practitioner after delayed checks

After regulation 7 (decisions and grounds for refusal) of the 2013 Regulations insert—

“Removal of returning practitioner after delayed checks

7A.

(1)

This regulation applies where the Board has decided to include a returning practitioner in a performers list.

(2)

The Board must remove the returning practitioner from the performers list at the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the date of the decision to include them in the list, unless the Board has before the end of that period—

(a)

carried out the checks referred to in regulation 5(1)(b) and (c) that would apply to any other Practitioner, and

(b)

obtained from the returning practitioner any further information it has sought under regulation 5(2).

(3)

The Board must remove the returning practitioner from the performers list if the checks and information referred to in paragraph (2)—

(a)

lead to the disclosure of new information to the Board, and

(b)

if the Board had received that information before deciding to include the returning practitioner in a performers list, it would have refused to include the returning practitioner in the performers list in accordance with regulation 7 (decisions and grounds for refusal).”.