{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-england-regulations-2013/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-england-regulations-2013/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Restrictions on withdrawal from performers lists",
  "text": "(1) A Practitioner may not withdraw from a performers list where—\n(a) the Practitioner is suspended from a performers list under regulation 12(1)(a) or (b) or regulation 12(1A); or\n(b) NHS England has decided to remove the Practitioner from a performers list under regulation 11(1)(c), 14(3) or (5), 16 or 17(6)(b) but its decision has not yet taken effect.\n(2) Where NHS England has notified a Practitioner of a matter referred to in paragraph (3), the Practitioner may not withdraw from a performers list in which the Practitioner is included until NHS England has finished its consideration of those matters.\n(3) Those matters are that NHS England is considering—\n(a) imposing conditions under regulation 10(1)(b);\n(b) imposing conditions or removing the Practitioner from a performers list under regulation 11;\n(c) suspending the Practitioner from a performers list under regulation 12; or\n(d) removing the Practitioner from the performers list under regulation 14(3) or (5), 16 or 17(6)(b).\n(4) Nothing in this regulation prevents a Practitioner from withdrawing from the performers list in question if the Secretary of State consents.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1)(a) inserted (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/362), regs. 1(1), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Instrument 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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/335/regulation/20",
    "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."
}