# The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2026, Regulation 9: Removal of a returning practitioner after delayed checks


(1) This regulation applies where a Local Health Board has decided to include a returning practitioner in a performers list.
(2) A Local Health Board must remove the returning practitioner from its 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 a Local Health Board has before the end of that period—
(a) carried out the checks referred to in regulation 6(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 6(2).
(3) A Local Health Board must remove the returning practitioner from its performers list—
(a) if the checks and information referred to in paragraph (2) lead to the disclosure of new information to a Local Health Board, and
(b) if a Local Health Board, if it had received that information before deciding to include the returning practitioner in its performers list, it would have refused to include the returning practitioner in its performers list in accordance with regulation 8.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/63/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-9
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