{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-england-regulations-2013/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-england-regulations-2013/regulation-17A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/335",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "National disqualification",
  "text": "Where the First-tier Tribunal imposes a national disqualification from a performers list on a Practitioner under section 159 of the National Health Service Act 2006—\n(a) the reference in section 159(8)(a) of that Act to a period of two years is to be treated as a reference to a period of five years if the Tribunal is of the opinion that the criminal or professional conduct of the Practitioner is such that there is no realistic prospect of a review being successful if held within that period of two years;\n(b) the reference in section 159(8)(b) of the Act to a period of one year is to be treated as a reference to a period of three years if the Tribunal is of the opinion that the criminal or professional conduct of the Practitioner is such that there is no realistic prospect of a further review being successful if held within that period of one year;\n(c) the references in section 159(8)(a) and (b) of the Act to periods of two years and one year are each to be treated as references to a period of one day, if—\n(i) a criminal conviction considered by the Tribunal in reaching a decision to impose the national disqualification has been quashed or the penalty reduced on appeal; or\n(ii) the decision of a licensing, regulatory or other body considered by the Tribunal in reaching a decision to impose the national disqualification has been quashed or the penalty reduced on appeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17A inserted (18.9.2023) by The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/828), regs. 1(1), 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/335/regulation/17A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:04:05.481793+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."
}