{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/63",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "National Disqualification",
  "text": "Where the First-tier Tribunal imposes a national disqualification from a performers list on a practitioner under section 115 of the 2006 Act—\n(a) the reference in section 115(8)(a) of that Act to a period of 2 years is to be treated as a reference to a period of 5 years if the First-tier 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 2 years;\n(b) the reference in section 115(8)(b) of the Act to a period of 1 year is to be treated as a reference to a period of 3 years if the First-tier 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 1 year;\n(c) the references in section 115(8)(a) and (b) of the Act to periods of 2 years and 1 year are each to be treated as references to a period of 1 day, if—\n(i) a criminal conviction considered by the First-tier 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 First-tier 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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 115 was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), section 297 and paragraph 31 of Schedule 21, the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), section 1 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, and S.I. 2010/22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/63/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:22.328799+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."
}